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ANNEX 1 - COMMUNITY BASED FOREST MANAGEMENT POLICIES IN THREE COUNTRIES OF ASIA PACIFIC REGION

(FOX, 1993)

Country

Product Rights

Responsibilities

Participants

Restrictions

Tenure rights

Indonesia
Java

Agroforestry products intercropped with timber species (no right to timber)

Follow FD directions; repay loans; guard and protect forests; meet timber seedling survival standards

Community members with emphasis on landless

Illegal felling; fires; encroachment

No ownership; contracts renewed every 2 years through length of timber rotation

Outer islands

Rights to exploit and benefit from forests as long as these activities do not infringe on basic forest law

Not specified

Not specified

Not specified

Adat (customary) rights are recognized except when land is deemed necessary for FD purposes

Philippines
Integrated Social Forestry

Exclusive use rights

Responsible land stewardship

Landless occupant who lived on the land before January 1982

Not specified

25 years renewable

Community Forestry Stewardship Agreement

Sharing of income from sale of timber, NTFP

Responsible land stewardship; from a legal nonprofit organization

Upland dwellers

Not specified

25 years renewable

Ancestral domain

Not specified

Responsible land stewardship; form a legal nonprofit organization

Approved indigenous groups

Not specified

Not specified

Thailand
Forest village programme

2.8 ha of agricultural land; 0.8 ha for home lots

Responsible land stewardship

Thai citizens; landless or small landholders

Can not transfer rights except by inheritence; can not cut or use forest treees; no grazing

Not specified

Stewardship Certificate programme

2.8 ha of agricultural land

Responsible land stewardship

Thai citizens; landless or small holding; forest occupancy before January 1982

Can not transfer right except by inheritence, can not cut or use forest trees; no grazing

25 years contract

FD: Forest Department, NTFP: Non-timber Forest Produce


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