The forest tenure assessment tool (FTAT) and user guide consists of an integrated set of methodologies and guidelines … for assessing both why it is important to secure community-based forest tenure in a specific national or sub …-national context, and what needs to be done to strengthen forest tenure in that context. It is a companion piece to the analytical …

millennia ago, population growth required the sacrifice of the forest to make way for crops, today forests are cut primarily for … profit, wood being one of the most precious commodities. It is true that in some parts of the world the forest is also … deforestation on many functions performed by the forest are evaluated, such as: carbon dioxide absorption and oxygen release …