PEN to the world (or at least IASC 2008)

Six PEN partners (Amy Duchelle, Pam Jagger, Charles Jumbe, Shah Raees Khan, Khaled Misbahuzzaman, and José Pablo Prado Córdova), PEN Coordinator Arild Angelsen, and PEN resource person William Sunderlin participated in the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), held July 14-19, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK. This event marked the first presentation of PEN research at a major international conference. more

PEN PROJECT: Sylvanus Abua: Linking Community Based Forest Management and Poverty Reduction: The case of the Mbe Mountains Wildlife Sanctuary, Nigeria

Cross River State in Nigeria holds about 50% of Nigeria’s last remaining tropical rainforest. For this reason, a number of donor-driven conservation projects have been implemented in the State. Regrettably, most of these initiatives do not have the local support they need to continue without external donor funding. Why? more
 

Poverty Environment Network (PEN)
an international network and research project on poverty, environment and forest resources

The Poverty Environment Network (PEN) was launched in September 2004 by the Center of International Forestry Research (CIFOR). The core of PEN is the tropics-wide collection of uniform socio-economic and environmental data at household and village levels by about 30 PEN partners (mainly PhD students), generating a global database with some 5-6 000 households and 200-250 villages from more than 20 countries. The data collection, which will continue until 2008, includes a careful recording of all forest and environmental uses, and all income data are collected through four quarterly surveys to shorten recall periods and increase accuracy. more
 

PEN flyer - a brief description of the PEN project

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