CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

The Ikalahan started to document carbon storage under their forest management systems in 1994 and provide global benefits at low transaction costs

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The tribal elders of the Ikalahan People ofNueva Vizcaya and Pangasinan in thePhilippines organized the KalahanEducational Foundation (KEF) in 1973 to protect their ancestral lands and their culture.They have pioneered Community-Based Forest Management and severa lother concepts, now being copied throughout the Philippines and parts of Southeast Asia.Thesehigh-mountain dwellers feel that in the past lowlanders looked down on them, strange as that sounds given the geography. For the Ikalahan, gaining recognition for their historical rights to the land is linked to gaining respect for their way of living and their role as guardians of the landscape.
    Publication year

    2007

    Authors

    Rice D

    Language

    English

    Keywords

    carbon, economics, landscape, ecology, communities

    Geographic

    Philippines

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