Community forests for forest communities: Integrating community-defined goals and practices in the design of forestry initiatives

Hajjar, Reem; Kozak, Robert; El-Lakany, Hosny; Innes, John L.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.03.002

Cited by 24 publications

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“…Training emerged as critical aspects to improve the participation situation in WUMs, which is similar to studies elsewhere [27,101,102]. Therefore, continuous communities' trainings are very important for the realization of PFM goals, even though care is necessary not to impose completely outside views while disregarding the community approaches [100].…”

Section: Participation Intensitysupporting

confidence: 68%

Participatory Forest Management in West Usambara Tanzania: What Is the Community Perception on Success?

Luswaga

Nuppenau

2020

Sustainability

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Despite the increase in forest areas and villages under the participatory program over the last two decades in Tanzania, there is little insight into the communities’ views regarding their participation. This study aimed to explore communities’ participation in the participatory forest program in Tanzania. The survey involved 159 households, randomly sampled from four villages bordering state and community-managed forests, in West Usambara Mountains. The factor analysis summarised three components of participation. Economic, decision-making, and protection activities are used to formulate the participation intensity index. The study observed significantly higher levels and intensity of participation in the villages around the state compared to those around the community forest. Training attendance, trust on institutions, and location were significant predictors of participation intensity of the households. In conclusion, the perceived performance of the participatory programs in achieving the participation aims has been moderate with better results in the state forest jointly managed with the community. Raising awareness and improving communication with villagers, fulfilling promises for the communities, and provision of more forest-linked interventions are recommended to improve the situation in West Usambara.

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Section: Participation Intensitysupporting

confidence: 68%

Participatory Forest Management in West Usambara Tanzania: What Is the Community Perception on Success?

Luswaga

Nuppenau

2020

Sustainability

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“…Despite the prevalent rhetoric of community empowerment and participation, community forestry is often promoted in a topdown manner in which the intervening (and often funding) agencies impose their normative values and sophisticated management tools (Pokorny et al 2010, Maryudi et al 2012, Hajjar et al 2013. A bottom-up approach that takes into account the needs, wishes and current realities of communities can lead to better designed support systems than those brought in from outside (Malla et al 2003, Thoms 2008, Hajjar et al 2013.…”

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Are community forests a viable model for the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Lescuyer¹,

Kakundika²,

Lubala³

et al. 2019

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Since the second half of the 2000s, several options for implementing community-based forest management in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), like the local community forest concession (LCFC), have been discussed in the country's technical and political circles. Proposals and pilot testing have increased in the last five years, but the funding of initiatives is often proposed for divergent purposes and taking different approaches. We reviewed current experiences in the Eastern province of the DRC and found that nobody has carried out an estimation of the financial returns of the business models they drew up for/with the communities involved. We therefore conducted a financial feasibility analysis for two case studies, estimating the costs of developing/ implementing activities and the benefits expected for the communities within the next five years. Three main conclusions were drawn from the analysis: (1) most activities conducted under the LCFC model deal with rural development, and not with forestry operations per se; (2) several forestry activities such as biodiversity conservation or carbon sequestration are not detailed in the management documents and appear to have little legitimacy for local populations; (3) the two LCFCs show a negative financial performance because the inception and implementation costs are substantially higher than the medium-term profits. Community forestry is unlikely to develop in the DRC unless local people are guaranteed that it will contribute to improving their livelihoods, notably their financial and physical capital. This requires that LCFC initiatives focus on actual productive uses of forest resources, which financial performance is systematically assessed ex ante. A simplification of the legal constraints is also needed to reduce the cost of creating and managing a LCFC.

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“…However, the policies and funding support on social forestry are unable to improve the performance of social forestry in the field. In general, community forestry still receives many critics (Hajjar et al, 2013) and has not been implemented effectively (Cronkleton et al, 2013;Soepijanto et al, 2013;Schusser et al, 2014).…”

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Integrated Analysis of Forest Policies and Their Impacts on Landscape and Lifescape Dynamics: A Case Study in The Walanae Forest Management Unit, Indonesia

Tajuddin

Supratman

Salman

et al. 2018

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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In the past few decades, forest policies have caused changes in forest landscape and community lifescape in the study area of Walanae Forest Management Unit (KPH Walanae), South Sulawesi Province. This research aims to analyze forest policy dynamics and their impacts on landscape and lifescape dynamics. We quantify landscape dynamics using land use and land cover change and landscape metrics in interpreting remote sensing results of four data sets obtained in 1990, 2000, 2009, and 2016. Furthermore, we investigate lifescape dynamics using qualitative/quantitative description. We found a rapid land use change in forest landscapes within the past 26 years. A significant change showed that, in 1990–2000, the primary forest that changed into the secondary forest and shrubs has changed into dry land agriculture mix shrubs. The decreased area of the forest brought an increase in economic income for people on one side and large disturbances and forest fragmentation on the other. Various forest policies influenced the forest composition and cover but were insufficiently successful in protecting the natural forest. Results showed that several forest policies that considerably impact the landscape and lifescape conditions include forest land designation, industrial forest plantation, and restoration activities. The policies on establishing KPH and social forest program have not shown the maximum result on the landscape and lifescape improvements and, therefore, must be supported.

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Community forests for forest communities: Integrating community-defined goals and practices in the design of forestry initiatives

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Participatory Forest Management in West Usambara Tanzania: What Is the Community Perception on Success?

Participatory Forest Management in West Usambara Tanzania: What Is the Community Perception on Success?

Are community forests a viable model for the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Integrated Analysis of Forest Policies and Their Impacts on Landscape and Lifescape Dynamics: A Case Study in The Walanae Forest Management Unit, Indonesia

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