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How sustainable is the current sustainable forest management approach in Nepal?

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    Current situation and solutions for community forest management in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam
    XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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    Community forest management has been officially recognized more clearly in Viet Nam's new Forest Law of 2017, so to promote community forest management, it is necessary to assess the past process and put it into new context to provide appropriate technical and policy recommendations. The fields of community forest management assessment were in Tul and Hang Nam villages, where M'Nong indigenous ethnic minorities live, in the Central Highlands, Viet Nam. Natural forests were allocated to these communities since 2002. Accordingly, Tul community had the support of a rural development project in the period of 2005-2009 to improve its capacity for management of community forests, while the Hang Nam community did not have any significant support from outside. Participatory research methods were applied to evaluate the results and effectiveness of community forest management. The results showed that: 1) The community forest model that was granted forest use rights without any support and advice to implement community forest management (In the case of Hang Nam community), achieved the rates according to the following: organizing 13%, technical 23%, economic 33%, social: 34% and environmental: 71% and on average 35% of all objectives were met; 2) The community forest model that was granted the forest use rights and received the supports for capacity building through a 4-year project (In the case of Tul community), achieved the rates according to the following: organizing 33%; technical 36%, economic 20%, social: 77% and environmental: 77% and on average 50% of all objectives were met. In order to consolidate and develop community forest management, it is necessary to synchronously implement the following solutions: 1) Strengthen the organization and management capacity for the communities; 2) Improve community livelihoods from forest management; 3) There is a need of more appropriate policies for community forest management; 4) Apply measures to rehabilitate degraded forests. Keywords: community forestry, evaluation of forest management, solutions for community forestry ID: 3472958
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    Community forest certification and stakeholders cooperation: An inclusive approach to enhance community capacity while meeting market demand on sustainably-certified products
    XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
    2022
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    Community forestry has begun a way to manage forest by involving surrounding communities. Indonesia has 2.6 million hectares of community forest with potential wood stock 74.7 million m3 (Ministry of Forestry Statistical Report, 2014). It is also indicated that the amount of timber harvested by communities has increased during the last decade, reaching more than 5 million m3 annually. When the logs production from the community forest tends to increase, its wood stock sustainability becomes concern to some stakeholders. Further, community forest holders who are typically small scale operations also become a consideration in implementing community forest certification. The study focus on the approach of IFCC and PEFC in building community forest certification scheme as a tool to enhance community capacity in managing the forest whilst also as a market-based instrument by linking market demands of sustainably-certified products with its producers. IFCC[1] has developed the community forest certification system with its objective to cooperate with multi stakeholders in enhancing community capacity to manage forest sustainably and meet the market demand. The development of IFCC standard for community forest was implemented in manners that are open, transparent and consensus-based.


    [1] IFCC is an organization of scheme owner and developer of sustainable forest management in Indonesia which has been endorsed by Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) since 2014. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, Human health and well-being, Partnerships, Sustainable forest management, Value chain ID: 3484993
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    Impacts of co-management approach in influencing cognitive behavior of stakeholders in conserving the Sundarbans mangrove forest
    XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
    2022
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    The Sundarbans – the single largest mangrove forest in the world is under significant pressure of more than 3.5 million people surrounding the forest who are either partially or completely dependent on the natural resources of the forest for their livelihoods. The management of this reserved forest was found ineffective for several decades mainly due to increased population pressure. It has been more than a decade since the government of Bangladesh have introduced co-management approach (CMA) which involved the local communities to the management functions of the forest. After the completion of several CMA-based projects, this research explored the impacts of CMA by influencing the cognitive behavior of different stakeholders which facilitated the conservation efforts of the Sundarbans. Factors affecting the changes in the local stakeholders’ behavior viz., literacy rate and alternative income generating sources, attitude, performance experience, observational learning, and emotional arousal were revealed in this qualitative study. It inquired how CMA influenced the behavioral changes of the local stakeholders by improving social and environmental awareness. This study also identified the problems and role of higher institutional bodies in changing the locals’ attitude towards the co-management functions. It also found the relationship among the components of CMA and the elements of cognitive behavior influencing the decision-making process of different stakeholders. The study examined whether this process moved forward or not to a sustainable solution for the conservation of the mangrove forest. The findings of the research are expected to help the policy makers to take various policy decisions for the improved and sustainable management of the Sundarbans mangrove forest. Moreover, the findings are also applicable as nature-based solutions for climate-change adaptation through changed attitudes and behaviors of local community people. Keywords: Co-management approach, cognitive behavior, conservation, Sundarbans, Bangladesh ID: 3487000

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