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The main purposes of this research are to identify and analyse the role of women and men in the forestry sector in Kosovo, and women’s and men’s ownership and use of forests.
Increased participation of local users in decision-making about forests and gaining benefits from these forests are major goals of the community forestry program in Nepal.
Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria
“Solidarity in a competing world —
fair use of resources”
Prosperity Prospects in Contested Forest Areas: Evidence from
Community Forestry Development in Guatemala and Nicaragua
Dietmar Stoian
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One of the main technical knowledge gaps for sustainable timber production in tropical forests is the lack of reliable information on tree growth, which is indispensable for defining cutting cycles and estimating harvest volumes.
Whilst community forestry programmes have combined sustainable forestry with community empowerment and poverty alleviation since the late 1970s, the role of intermediary organisations in shaping the technical and political capacities of forest user groups has rarely been systematically studied.
Community forestry (CF) was initiated in the 1970s as a way to empower communities, alleviate poverty and manage forests. Intermediary organisations are considered to have played a critical role in the sustainability and equitability of community forest management.
