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Gill Shepherd specialises in problem-oriented, policy-relevant research and advice on forests, and has worked recently: on forests and poverty; on local people's forest conservation and management practices; and on the better harmonisation of livelihoods and biological diversity at a variety of scales, through sustainable use as well as preservation. She is currently embarking upon research on the measurement of poverty among forest-dependent people and its policy implications. She has a special interest in international forest and development policies and their translation, though such mechanisms as national forest programmes and others, into useable country-based systems.
Gill joined ODI in 1985, establishing both ODI's Forests, Environment and Climate Change Programme, and the Rural Development Forestry Network. Her earlier research at ODI focussed mainly upon tropical dry forests and related issues such as fuelwood provision, and she has recently revisited these topics to see how they have continued to unfold. In 1994 she received the Society of American Foresters' Award for Outstanding Contributions to Tropical Forestry. She was a member of the Board of Trustees of CIFOR from 1996-2002, chairing it from 1997-2000.
Before 1985 she worked for Oxfam, for ERM (Environmental Resources Management) and in Anthropology Departments in the University of Sussex and Goldsmith's College, London. A social scientist with over 30 years' experience, mainly in Africa and Asia, Gill's original PhD was on traders and migrants along the East African coast and across the Indian Ocean.
MA (English), PhD (Anthropology). Gill is fluent in French and Kiswahili, fairly fluent in Arabic and Italian, and has just begun to learn Bahasa (Indonesia).
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Forestry as an Entry Point for Governance Reform ODI Forestry Briefing 1 |
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| Tropical forestry provides a useful entry point for governance programmes. The very factors which make it a challenging sector for development assistance commend it also as a crucible for governance reform: its inclusive focus, linking the global to the national and local; the high levels of income and other benefits which it generates; its local fiscal base; the centrality of issues of tenure and collective rights; and its importance in rural livelihoods, all reinforce the linkages between good governance, public accountability and poverty alleviation. Ensuring that the forest sector fulfils this brief is a major challenge not just to host country governments but also to the donor community. | ||
| David Brown, Gill Shepherd, Kate Schreckenberg and Adrian Wells | April 2002 | |
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Indonesia and the 1997-98 El Niño: fire problems and long-term solutions ODI Natural Resource Perspectives 28 |
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| The 1997-98 El Niño is among the strongest recorded and low rainfall in Indonesia set the conditions for widespread fires. At the same time, it was clearer during this particular El Niño than it had been in the past that many fires were being deliberately set. They must be understood in the context of competing land-claims from government and private companies on the one hand, and local people with customary rights to land on the other. The 1997 El Niño is the first in which the resources of Land Satellite imagery and the Internet were harnessed to demonstrate quite clearly where the fires were taking place, and why. | ||
| Gill Shepherd and Neil Byron | 1998 | |
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Human Rights and Poverty Reduction. Public goods and private rights: The illegal logging debate and the rights of the poor Rights in Action Background Paper |
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| Public goods and private rights: The illegal logging debate and the rights of the poor | ||
| David Brown, Adrian Wells, Cecilia Luttrell and Neil Bird | March 2005 | |
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| Managing Africa's Tropical Dry Forests: A Review of Indigenous Methods | ||
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Identifies and analyses a range of indigenous forest management practices in dryland Africa, to encourage the forestry profession to take more account of them in planning forest management. Includes extensive bibliographic summaries. The author points out that the State's ability to protect forests in this region may now be so diminished that the best solution is to pass management and ownership to appropriate groups of local people.
120pp 1992 £10.95 ISBN 0 85003 342 X paper |
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| Gill Shepherd | 1998 | |
| European Tropical Forestry Sourcebook | ||
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| Forest Policies, Forest Politics | ||
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An overview chapter which discusses the political and institutional context of forestry policy is followed by four case studies which examine institutional constraints on forestry policy and woodland management in Mali, urban-rural conflict over wood fuel-use in Nigeria and the 'reality of the commons' in Somalia. 72pp 1992 £8.95 ISBN 0 85003 191 5 paper |
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| Gill Shepherd | 1995 | |
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| Poverty and Sustainable Forest Management in the Context of Decentralisation: Adding Value, Sharpening Policy | ||
| This project plans to build a 'Shared Learning Partnership' between local and central government, research institutions, civil society and the private sector, on poverty and its relationship to sustainable forest management. | ||
| Gill Shepherd and Adrian Wells | October 2002 - April 2003 | |
| Preparation of the Second Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) by the European Community, and Thematic Reports on Forests, Alien Species and Benefit Sharing | ||
| This project aims to support DG Environment in the preparation of the Second Report from the European Community to the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). | ||
| Gill Shepherd and Adrian Wells | 2001 | |
| A Programme of EU Tropical Forestry Information Consolidation, Networking and Dissemination | ||
| This project was concerned with the tropical forestry activities of the EU Member States | ||
| David Brown, Gill Shepherd and Kate Schreckenberg | 2000 | |