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Policy Brief: Community-based Forestry - Extent, effectiveness and potential

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 20

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Series number 176

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In 2015, FAO undertook a detailed global review of community-based forestry (CBF), which was published as FAO Forestry Paper 176, Forty years of community-based forestry: A review of its extent and effectiveness (www.fao.org/3/b-i5415e.pdf). The review demonstrated and confirmed the potential social, economic and environmental benefits that can flow from CBF. This Policy Brief draws on the review to summarize the extent of CBF around the world and assess its effectiveness in terms of socioeconomic and biophysical outcomes. It then details the reforms needed to improve CBF so that it can better enhance sustainable benefits for local people, and contribute to national development goals and national and global climate change targets, as well as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

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