Collective action and collaborative management of forests

CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi). 2010. Collective action and collaborative management of forests. In Resources, rights, and cooperation: A sourcebook on property rights and collective action for sustainable development, CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi). Property Rights and Collective Action for Natural Resource Management, Chapter 3, Pp. 99-103. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153770

Governments around the world increasingly seek to manage their forests with the collaboration of the people living nearby. Forestry Ministries or their equivalents usually do this by offering local people access to selected forest products or forest land, income from forest resources, or opportunities for communicating with government forestry officials. In return, the agency obliges local people to cooperate in managing the forests around them by protecting existing forest or by planting trees.