World Raninforest Movement - June 2004

As we all know, the conservation of the world’s forests requires the adoption of a series of measures to change the current model of destruction, among which the empowerment of local communities to manage their own forests. In most of the countries of the world, there are many examples of appropriate forest management, in which environmentally sustainable use is assured while benefiting local communities.

This type of management is generically known as “community-based forest management,” although it adopts different modalities in accordance with the socio-environmental diversity of the places where it is developed.

This publication (also available in Spanish and French) aims at supporting and promoting this type of approach. The book is divided into two sections: the first one, presents a series of analytical article on the subject, and the second one consists of a selection of articles based on experiences of community forest management from different countries of the world.

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Table of Contents

ABOUT THIS BOOK

OUR VIEWPOINT

- Community-Based Forest Management is not only possible it is essential

RELEVANT ISSUES OF THE COMMUNITY APPROACH

- Community Forest Management: A feasible and necessary alternative
- Wilderness Parks or Community Conservation?
- Forests for the People who Sustain the Forests
- The Forest: A Generous Providing Home
- Community Forests: Emancipatory Change or Smoky Mirrors?
- Women and Forest Resources: Two Cases From Central America
- Mapping as a Step for Securing Community Control: Some Lessons From South East Asia
- Global Caucus on Community-Based Forest Management
- Moving forward: The Mumbai Forest Initiative
- The time of truth for the United Nations Forum on Forests
- Community-Based Forest Management: Beyond “Resources”
- Forests and communities: Idealization or solution?
- Two initiatives for Community-Based Forest Management
- Community forests’ on-going battle with corporate forestry
- Community forests in international processes

SHARING LOCAL EXPERIENCES

AFRICA
Steady if Hesitant Movement Towards Devolution
Benin
Community-Based Forest Management in the Igbodja Forest
Cameroon
Unequal equality between community forests and logging companies
Development of Community Forests
Côte d'Ivoire
The sacred forest, a community protected area
Eritrea
Sustainable forest use threatened by government policies
Gambia
A case of community forest management
Ghana
Ancient tradition in community forest management
Kenya
Using Participatory Forest Management Plans
Senegal
Women's project restores nature and benefits the community
Tanzania
Traditional knowledge in forest restoration
Community-based forest management as a way forward for conservation
Joint and Community-Based Forest Management in the Uluguru Mountains
Improving forest management through joint management with communities
Uganda
Collaborative and Community-Based Forest Management are not synonymous

ASIA
The Initiative on Good Forest Governance: In Support of CBFM and Wider Processes
Cambodia
Timber concessions vs community forests
India
Gender bias and disempowerment in World Bank-funded forestry projects
Indigenous Peoples and Joint Forest Management
Oppose World Bank and Save Forests
Indonesia
The alternative approach of community forest management
Towards Community Forestry
Changes and Challenges of the Community-Based Forest Management Movement
The Dayak People in the First Co-managed Protected Area
The Contribution of Communal Ecosystem Management Systems
Nepal
An experience of Community Based Forest Management
Philippines
Community Forestry, the response to forest depletion
Lessons on gender from community based forest management
Thailand
Forests Communities to Renew Struggle for Rights
A diversity-based community forest management system
Senate blocks draft community forest bill

CENTRAL AMERICA
ACICAFOC, An On-Going Proposal
Nicaragua
Reforestation as Part of Community-Based Farm Planning in Rio San Juan
Panama
The experience of Apaquiset in community-based resource management

NORTH AMERICA
USA
Community Forestry, A Growing Movement
The National Network of Forest Practitioners

SOUTH AMERICA
Bolivia
Community-based forest management in the history of the indigenous peoples
Brazil
Community-Based Forest Management in the Brazilian Amazon
Chile
Forest management by indigenous communities
Community forestry as an alternative model
Is Community-Based Forest Management Possible in the Context of a Neoliberal Economy?
Private conservation and communities
Colombia
An example of a community-managed forest
Ecuador
The Awa Federation’s Experience in the Management of its Territory

OCEANIA
Melanesia
Community-Based Ecoforestry Protecting Forests
Papua New Guinea
Small-scale sawmilling a good way forward
Solomon Islands
Ecoforestry, A Ray of Hope

REFERENCES

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(also available in French and Spanish).