[enviro-vlc] Fwd: 15 new forest-related knowledge activities funded by PROFOR

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From: fdepreneuf at worldbank.org
Date: 2 July 2010 9:16:44 AM PDT
To: "Forest Policy Info Mailing List" <forests-l at lists.iisd.ca>
Subject: 15 new forest-related knowledge activities funded by PROFOR
Reply-To: fdepreneuf at worldbank.org

June 2010 Highlights

The Program on Forests (PROFOR) is dedicated to supporting timely, in-depth forests policy analysis, research and processes that support the
following goals: improving people's livelihoods; enhancing forest governance and law enforcement; financing sustainable forest
management; and coordinating forest policy with other sectors.

Its June newsletter highlights a number of exciting learning and capacity building events, from a keynote speech by Nobel
Laureate Elinor Ostrom, to a forest governance workshop in Kampala, Uganda - and many things in between. We also provide a heads-up on imminent
publications, upcoming events and brief summaries of 15 recently launched knowledge activities.

The newsletter is available here: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?ProgramonForests/db73d0c398/TEST/dd870ee3c2

--PROFOR Secretariat

Newsletter extract: 

Different hues of REDD

"To achieve long-term reductions in deforestation across the region,
REDD+ will have to be pro-poor," writes the International Institute
for Environment and Development (IIED) in a report published in May
2010. What would a pro-poor REDD scheme look like? At a time when
more and more global initiatives are taking on the challenges of
deforestation and climate change, the question is more than an
intellectual exercise -- it invites soul-searching among multilateral
and bilateral development agencies whose main mission remains the
fight against world poverty. Because of its long-standing interest in
exploring the linkages between forests and livelihoods, PROFOR is
well placed to begin looking for answers...

Read more: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?ProgramonForests/db73d0c398/TEST/dd870ee3c2

Program on Forests (PROFOR) http://www.profor.info

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