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Understanding forest tenure in South and Southeast Asia

Year of publication 2008

Pages 453 p.

Author Forestry Economics and Policy Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Does forest tenure matter? In what way does it matter? What are the links among tenure, sustainable forest management (SFM) and poverty alleviation (PA)? This paper presents the main findings of research that was conducted by FAO and partners from the Asia Forest Partnership with the aim of analysing and understanding the role of tenure arrangements, their enabling impacts and their limitations. The paper presents a summary of different tenure instruments’ performance in supporting SFM and PA, a nd provides recommendations for more effective forest tenure systems.

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