Journal
INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 197-207Publisher
COMMONWEALTH FORESTRY ASSOC
DOI: 10.1505/146554822835629541
Keywords
sustainable forest management; community forestry; financial feasibility
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- Program for Sustainable Forest Management in the Amazon
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The study found that only three out of twelve CFM systems in the Brazilian Amazon were financially viable, with the majority requiring large-scale operations to be successful. The current legal regulations and technical principles of CFM do not align with the capacities and realities of local forest users in the region, highlighting the need to better adapt this approach to the interests and capacities of local resource users.
To understand the financial feasibility of externally-driven community forestry management (CFM), this study assesses twelve CFM systems in the Brazilian Amazon classified as particularly successful by supporting organizations. The study showed that significant investments were necessary to set up the initiatives, including pre-financing the annual operational costs. Only three of the twelve management systems were found to be financially viable. These successful cases were able to follow the Reduced Impact Logging (RIL) guidelines due to the large scale of their operations. The smaller initiatives were not financially autonomous. The findings indicate that the legal regulations and technical principles of the CFM approach do not correspond to the capacities and realities of typical local forest users in the Brazilian Amazon. There is an urgent need to better adapt this approach to the interests and capacities of local resource users.
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