Over the last few years, the State of Amazonas has developed an original forest policy [1] based on small-scale sustainable management of forests, the creation of protected areas and a climate law. Below we discuss the possible evolutionary scenarios for the Amazonian forests at the state level and the challenges that the policy needs to address in the light of reference studies. Existing studies and estimates Nearly all studies are agreed that deforestation is not primarily the result of (...)

Fraticelli, Merlet. Paper. Conference CIFOR. 2010. [en] This paper is based on the results of a research carried out during 2009 by AGTER as part of a broader CIFOR research, financed by a Rights and Resources Initiative project. The five-month fieldwork was carried out by Marta Fraticelli. It was presented by Marta Fraticelli and Michel Merlet during the Conference. "Taking stock of smallholder and community forestry: Where do we go from here?" IRD, CIFOR, CIRAD 24 - 26 March 2010 (...)

Forests management has become a central issue of the United Nations negotiations on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to fight against global warming. The Kyoto protocol encourages the developed countries, that committed themselves to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, to preserve or to increase their forests. On the other hand, these countries (and the associated national industries) can achieve, in the Southern countries, plantations of trees in order to get some carbon (...)