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Officially formed in April 2013, The Forest Peoples Land Rights Network (LandNet) is a ‘member network established under the principles of volunteerism, democracy, cooperation and unification in order to manage and utilize efficiently land and forestry resources for self-sustaining livelihoods’. LandNet is a highly participatory bottom-up network originating from the grassroots work facilitated by CIRUM and its Alliance partners over the last ...
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The Forest Peoples Land Rights Network (LandNet) in recent years has collaborated with key farmers, and local government agencies, scientific organizations, experts and specialists, etc to conduct on-going studies related to: a) forest and land rights, b) customary law based forest and land governance and, c) forest and land co-governance. The case studies have been taken place in different ecological cultural economic ...
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Big cheers to our success lobby forestry law revision |
Dear All,
We are so pleased to inform you that we have been successful in lobbying for the recognition of the rights of EM over their customary forests. The Forestry Law Revision has been newly passed on 15 November 2017, and CIRUM/LandNet/LISO, with the active supports from EU, ICCO, CARE Vietnam, BftW, Mcknight Foundation, and CCFD, have successfully lobbied for the main following new rights:
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EM communities are legally recognized as forest owners [1] (this was absent in the previous Forestry Law).To this end, EM communities have the same rights as other forest owners (like state owned organizations, forestry companies/private companies);
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EM communities have legal rights to receive government fees for forest protection and payments for environment service (PES) [2], to practice forest belief [3], establish ecotourism business organizations [4], government helps to carry out forest based income generation activities and reforestation with local forestry species [5], to own planted trees that have been invested by communities themselves [6].
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Traditional forests of EMs (sacred forests, water source forests) are legally recognized as special use and protection forests and can be legally allocated to EMs for management and protection [7]. To this end, EMs have fully legal rights to access and control over their traditional forests [8].
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EM communities and households have legal rights to involve in forestry activities (forest management planning, forest land allocation, etc) to promote transparency and gender equality [9]
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Customary law in forest land allocation and forest management is legally recognized [10]
BIG CHEERS!
[1] Point 9 Article 2 and Point 6 Article 8
[2] Point 1 (b) Article 81; Point 1 (b) Article 86
[4] Point4 Article 53; Point 4 Article 56; Point 1 Article 60
[5] Point 1 (c) Article 86
[6] Point 1 (d) Article 86
[7] Point 1 (d), Point 2 (d), Point 3 (a) Article 16
[9] Point 4 Article 3, Point 1 (d) Article 10
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In the long historical development of Vietnam, the village, which is referred to in different ethnic minority languages as làng, bản, thôn, buôn, bon, phum, sóc, ấp[1] has become a forest owner, and has obtained a very important role in forest management and protection....
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[1] According to a term provided by Decree 17/HĐBT in 1992 of the Government on guiding to implement Law on Forest Protection and Development of 1991.
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