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Food, Fuel, Fiber and Forest

Exclusion & Inclusion of Women in the Forest Sector

Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry

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Forests and Poverty Reduction

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Genetically Modified Trees

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Contact Information

The Forests Dialogue Secretariat
Yale University
360 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
USA

T +1 203 432 5966
F +1 203 432 3809
tfd@yale.edu

James Mayers
TFD Co-Leader

Carlos Roxo
TFD Co-Leader

Gary Dunning
Executive Director

The Forests Dialogue

Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry

Fifth Dialogue on ILCF - “Investors” Dialogue

TFD's fifth ILCF dialogue was a first opportunity to have a wide range of investors to converse directly with representatives of family, community and indigenous peoples’ rights-holders to discuss what they think needs to be included within this ILCF Initiative to continue to make progress on increasing investment in LCF.

Co-Chairs' Summary  | Informe Ejecutivo de los Moderadores

Meeting Materials

London Concept Note
Background Paper

Agenda

Participants List

Day 1 Presentations

Introduction - Gary Dunning
Background Paper Overview
- Dominic Elson
Case Study: Forest Finance
- Martin Bolte
Breakout Session I

Day 2 Presentations

Co-Chairs' Summary of Day 1
Breakout Session II

Previous Dialogues' Materials

Co-Chairs' Summary - Scoping Dialogue, Brussels
Co-Chairs' Summary - Field Dialogue, Panama

Co-Chairs' Summary - Field Dialogue, Nepal

Other Resources

PwC and WBCSD Financial Tookit
FAO: small-scale forest based enterprises (webpage)

FAO: forest economics and finance (webpage)

Opportunities provided by Public-Private Partnerships in Commercial Forestry in Tanzania (presentation May 22, 2009)

Financing Flows and Needs to Implement the Non-Legally Binding Instrument on all Types of Forests (Simula, M., 2008)

Roots of success: cultivating viable community forestry (Macqueen, D., 2009 - IIED Briefing)

Supporting small forest enterprises: a facilitator's toolkit (draft) (Forest Connect, IIED, FAO, PROFOR)

Connecting small enterprises in ways that enhance the lives of forest-dependent people (Macqueen, D., 2007. Unasylva 228, Vol. 58)

ILCF Opinion Piece (Rhein, M., 2010)

Background on the G3 - the rights holders alliance of GACF, IAITPTF and IFFA:

Introduction to the G3
G3 Objectives and 2010-2011 Workplan

Rights holders' report from CIFOR Montepellier smallholder and community forestry conference (March 2010)

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