Community Forest Enterprise Markets in Mexico and Brazil: New Opportunities and Challenges for Legal Access to the Forest
| Autor: | Gabriela Donini, Augusta Molnar, A. White, David Kaimowitz, Natalia Vidal, Denyse Gomes, Romier Sousa, Stefanie Kaatz, Alejandra Martin, Rene Andreas Forster Hojer, Luis Alfonso Arguelles, Sara J. Scherr |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Economic growth
Poverty Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management Forestry Community ownership Management Monitoring Policy and Law Livelihood Indigenous Incentive Forest resource Business Forest industry Administration (government) Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sustainable Forestry. 27:87-121 |
| ISSN: | 1540-756X 1054-9811 |
| Popis: | A significant shift has taken place in global forest tenure, with a doubling of the forest area under community ownership (or administration over the past 15 years). There is every indication that communal tenure will double again over the next 15 years. Recognition of traditional and indigenous peoples' collective rights over forest lands has important implications for forest-rich countries—both developed and developing. Combined with dramatic changes in the structure of the forest industry and globalizing markets, this shift creates new opportunities and challenges for low-income forest producers and community enterprises to leave poverty and diversify livelihoods. The challenge for policy makers and governments is to reform outdated regulatory and incentive frameworks to support these enterprises. This article presents findings on three types of responses from communities to the new opportunities created by the tenure shift and looks specifically at community timber enterprise cases from Mexic... |
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