Community-based forestry: extent, effectiveness and potential. Policy brief
Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably. Over time, various forms of community-based forestry have evolved in dfferent countries, but all have at their heart the notion of some level of participation by smallholders and community groups in planning and implementation. This Policy Brief draws on the review of the FAO Forestry Paper 176, Forty years of community-based forestry: A review of its extent and ffectiveness to summarize the extent of CBF around the world and assess its ffectiveness in terms of socioeconomic and biophysical outcomes. It then details the reforms needed to improve CBF so that it can better enhance sustainable benefits for local people, and contribute to national development goals and national and global climate change targets, as well as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Policy Brief is targeted at policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, communities and civil society.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Rome (Italy) FAO
2018
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| Subjects: | forest resources, resource conservation, community forestry, community involvement, sustainable forest management, sustainable livelihoods, forestry policies, |
| Online Access: | http://www.fao.org/3/i8372en/I8372EN.pdf |
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| Summary: | Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably. Over time, various forms of community-based forestry have evolved in dfferent countries,
but all have at their heart the notion of some level of participation by smallholders and community groups in planning and implementation.
This Policy Brief draws on the review of the FAO Forestry Paper 176, Forty years of community-based forestry: A review of its extent and ffectiveness to summarize the extent of CBF around the world and assess its ffectiveness in terms of socioeconomic and biophysical outcomes. It then details the reforms needed to improve CBF so that it can better enhance sustainable benefits for local people, and contribute to national development goals and national and global climate change
targets, as well as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The Policy Brief is targeted at policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, communities and civil society. |
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