Community Forestry As A Tool For Sustainable Forest Management And Rural Poverty Reduction In Combodia
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Date
2011
Authors
., Ty Sopkhun
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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As deforestation and forest degradation continue, the trend of managing the forest has advanced from centralized or state managed to decentralized and community-based management. Innovative approaches, such as community forestry (CF), play an important role in supporting livelihood and the sustainable forest management. Community Forestry (CF) was launched in Cambodia to address the growing poverty in the rural areas. The pro-poor approach in forest resource management aims to provide security of tenure to the communities over the resources they are managing. The CF is expected to address the growing land conflicts in the hinterlands. Community Forestry offers a means of providing security of tenure and access to forest resources over the area. By providing secured tenurial instruments, it is expected that the community will be more inclined to invest on sustainable and long term forestry investments and will be motivated to participate in forest conservation. Ultimately, it is expected that Community Forestry will bring positive improvement to the lives of the community forestry members.
This study is aimed at investigating the performance of community forestry in alleviating poverty among the CF members in Cambodia. It seeks to evaluate the conditions of the implementation of community forestry in Cambodia and the effect of the factors in its implementation. The relationship between the population growth in the rural areas, sustainable management of the forest resources and poverty reduction in Cambodia is also being examined as well as the factors that affect the poverty reduction. More specifically, the study will determine the factors influencing the effectiveness of community based sustainable forest management approaches in reducing poverty in Cambodia. Six research questions were posed and six hypotheses were tested in this study. A total of 399 CF member households participated with an equivalent number of non-CF member household respondents. A total of 914 household respondents were interviewed from the 88 community forestry sites in Cambodia.
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Community forestry as a tool for sustainable , forest management and rural poverty