Forest Ecosystems
Does a reduction in threats (or restoration) lead to conservation?
A Global Assessment of Community Based Natural Resources Management: Addressing the Critical Challenges of the Rural Sector
CBNRM: An assessment with recommendations for the future.
A Sourcebook for Community-Based Forestry Enterprise Programming
This Sourcebook aims to inform design and implementation of community forestry interventions that seek to deliver social, environmental, and economic outcomes in developing countries.
Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Effective at Reducing Local Threats to Specified Elements of Biodiversity and/or Improving or Maintaining the Conservation Status of Those Elements?
Key points in this document.
Beyond Nature Appropriation: Towards Post-Development Conservation in the Maya Forest
Key points in document.
Case Studies: Bundling Agricultural Products with Ecosystem Services
This paper examines how bundling of ecosystem services into agricultural products (BESAP) markets are actually being set up on the ground, drawing lessons learned from six cases in Africa and Latin America.
Community-Based Forest Enterprises: Their Status and Potential in Tropical Countries
Key points in document.
Community-based Natural Resource Management and Poverty Alleviation in Namibia: A Case Study
Through community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), Namibians who form conservancies now have legal rights to manage wildlife and benefit from tourism.
Community-Based Tree and Forest Product Enterprises: Market Analysis and Development
The manual defines the Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) process, and provides planners with the information necessary to prepare for and to implement the MA&D process with respect to community-based enterprise development.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2022 : Using a Theory of Change to Learn Across Conservation Enterprises Posters
From May to August 2022, seven activity teams, including USAID staff and implementing partners, from five Missions around the globe joined the second round of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab to share with each other their successes and challenges in implementing conservation enterprises.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2024: Harnessing a Theory of Change for Effective Conservation Enterprise Strategies Posters
From May to September 2024, nine activity teams—including USAID staff and implementing partners—from seven countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia participated in the fourth iteration of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2022: Using a Theory of Change to Learn Across Conservation Enterprises Webinar Presentation
From May to August 2022, seven activity teams, including USAID staff and implementing partners, from five Missions around the globe joined the second round of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab to share with each other their successes and challenges in implementing conservation enterprises.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2024: Harnessing a Theory of Change for Effective Conservation Enterprise Strategies Webinar Presentation
From May to September 2024, nine activity teams—including USAID staff and implementing partners—from seven countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia participated in the fourth iteration of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab.
Conservation Enterprise Planning Checklist
This checklist can be used by practitioners to help plan their conservation enterprise approach.
Conservation Enterprise: What Works, Where and for Whom?
Key points in document.
Conservation Marketing Equation: A Manual for Conservation and Development Professionals
Key points in document.
Democratising forest business: a compendium of successful locally controlled forest business organisations
The main purpose of this book is to present 19 case studies from 14 developing countries that show how local people have been democratising forest business.
Development AND Gorillas? Assessing Fifteen Years of Integrated Conservation and Development in South-Western Uganda
Key points in document.
Does Conserving Biodiversity Work to Reduce Poverty: A State of Knowledge Review
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