Challenges of community forestry in tropical America
Community forestry is seen as a promising option to improve the often-precarious situation of rural families while at the same time contributing to conserve forests. National and international organizations are promoting community forestry, aiming for a clear set of features that include: legal fore...
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| author | Pokorny, B. Sabogal, C. Jong, W. de Pacheco, P. Porro, N.M. Louman, Bastian Stoian, D. |
| author_browse | Jong, W. de Louman, Bastian Pacheco, P. Pokorny, B. Porro, N.M. Sabogal, C. Stoian, D. |
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| description | Community forestry is seen as a promising option to improve the often-precarious situation of rural families while at the same time contributing to conserve forests. National and international organizations are promoting community forestry, aiming for a clear set of features that include: legal forest use, reduced impact harvesting, commercialization in non-local markets, and technical training services.While some successful experiences and achievements can be reported, most community forestry initiatives confront severe challenges and only continue while being externally supported. A review of experiences with community forestry in tropical America suggests that to better respond to local realities, community forestry has to shift from transferring externally defined technologies and schemes for social organization to strategies for facilitating communities to develop and implement their own aspirations and vision on local forest management. This means that efforts to adapt community forestry to external concepts need to adapt itself as true support of local interests and capacities |
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| spelling | CGSpace204392025-01-24T14:12:45Z Challenges of community forestry in tropical America Pokorny, B. Sabogal, C. Jong, W. de Pacheco, P. Porro, N.M. Louman, Bastian Stoian, D. community forestry forest conservation small enterprises rural development Community forestry is seen as a promising option to improve the often-precarious situation of rural families while at the same time contributing to conserve forests. National and international organizations are promoting community forestry, aiming for a clear set of features that include: legal forest use, reduced impact harvesting, commercialization in non-local markets, and technical training services.While some successful experiences and achievements can be reported, most community forestry initiatives confront severe challenges and only continue while being externally supported. A review of experiences with community forestry in tropical America suggests that to better respond to local realities, community forestry has to shift from transferring externally defined technologies and schemes for social organization to strategies for facilitating communities to develop and implement their own aspirations and vision on local forest management. This means that efforts to adapt community forestry to external concepts need to adapt itself as true support of local interests and capacities 2010 2012-06-04T09:13:22Z 2012-06-04T09:13:22Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/20439 en Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., de Jong, W., Pacheco, P., Porro, N.M., Louman, B, Stoian, D. 2010. Challenges of community forestry in tropical America . Bois et Forêts des Tropiques 303 (1) :53-66. ISSN: 0006-579X. |
| spellingShingle | community forestry forest conservation small enterprises rural development Pokorny, B. Sabogal, C. Jong, W. de Pacheco, P. Porro, N.M. Louman, Bastian Stoian, D. Challenges of community forestry in tropical America |
| title | Challenges of community forestry in tropical America |
| title_full | Challenges of community forestry in tropical America |
| title_fullStr | Challenges of community forestry in tropical America |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges of community forestry in tropical America |
| title_short | Challenges of community forestry in tropical America |
| title_sort | challenges of community forestry in tropical america |
| topic | community forestry forest conservation small enterprises rural development |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/20439 |
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