Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing : Insights on Factors and Context that Make Collaborative Arrangements Work for Communities and Landowners

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ABBREVIATIONS;    ACCESS TO LAND;    ACRONYMS;    AGRICULTURE;    ALLIANCES;   

RP-ID  :  51575

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Forest-sector collaborative arrangementscome in many forms. The local partner may be a community, anassociation, or a set of individual landholders. The outsidepartner may be a private organization or a government. Theinterest of the local partner may be production of incomefrom the forest, security of access to land, increased laboror small business opportunities, protection of traditionallyvalued resources, or other values. The interest of theoutside partner may be similarly varied, from securingaccess to forest products, to obtaining the cooperation ofthe local community in the partner's resource use, tosecuring a source of labor, to alleviation of rural poverty,to production of environmental services and management ofrisks. Establishing arrangements that effectively deliversustainable forest management and benefit local communitiesis a challenge because of the range of participants,objectives, and scales of partnerships and benefit-sharingarrangements. This study uses an evidence-based approach toprovide insights into developing and maintainingcollaborative arrangements in the forest sector. It aims toinform discussions and approaches to forest partnership andbenefit-sharing arrangements. It also offers guidance on howto implement key factors that influence contract-basedforest partnerships and benefit-sharing arrangements.