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Allies for subsistence: poverty alleviation in community forestry limited by powerful actors
Full text linkOver one billion people in the world depend on forests to meeting livelihood needs and more than half of them engage in community-based forest management. Community forestry has the potential of making important contributions in achieving the sustainable development goals; however, their positive effects on local livelihoods have been questioned. Actors, with their interests and power balance, can be important factors explaining the success of community forestry by shaping the decision-making process. Hence, the aim of our study was to analyze the economic performance of community forestry across the world, through its contribution to poverty reduction and explain how the economic outcome relates to the interests of the powerful actors. Community forestry from seven countries was analyzed including cases in Asia (Nepal, Indonesia, Vietnam), Africa (Namibia and Cameroon), and Europe (Germany and Albania). Data were collected with a sequence design method aiming to identify the participating actors and their power. A multivariate principal components analysis was conducted to capture the power dynamics within each community forestry. Results showed that community forestry programs do not always lead to poverty alleviation. The economic outcomes can be linked to the interests of the most powerful actors which in most cases do not desire a high economic outcome but rather promote contributions up to subsistence level.Fil: Burns, Sarah Lilian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales. Laboratorio de Investigacion de Sistemas Ecologicos y Ambientales; Argentina. Technische Universität Dresden; AlemaniaFil: Krott, Max. Universität Göttingen; AlemaniaFil: Salla, Manjola. Universität Göttingen; Alemani
Local Struggle for Accessing State Forest Property in a Montane Forest Village in Java, Indonesia
No full textPage Header Logo Journal of Sustainable Development Open Journal Systems Journal Help User Username Password Remember me Journal Content Search Browse By Issue By Author By Title Other Journals Font Size Make font size smaller Make font size default Make font size larger Information For Readers For Authors For Librarians Current Issue Atom logo RSS2 logo RSS1 logo Home About Log In Register Search Current Archives Recruitment Editorial Board Submission Index Contact Other Journals Publisher Home > Vol 5, No 7 (2012) > Maryudi Local Struggle for Accessing State Forest Property in a Montane Forest Village in Java, Indonesia Ahmad Maryudi, Max Krott Abstract How local people can access state forests has become a central issue in forest resource management in Indonesia in recent years. This is because for most of the ‘modern history’ of forest management in the country, the forest resources have been at the monopoly of the state. In fact, there have been an increasing number of local people’ struggles for obtaining meaningful and legal access to the state forest resources in the country. In response to these, the forest administration has implemented a community forestry program. This paper aims to observe the transformation the people’s access to the forests, whether the community forestry program improve the access to the state forest resources. Employing the theory of access provided by Ribot and Peluso (2003), which defines access as the ability to benefit from a resource either legal or illegal, this paper finds that the community forestry program actually reduces the people’s access to the forests
Evaluation for Optimizing Sustainable Development Research - Experiences from the Austrian Research Program “Cultural Landscape Management”
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