(FOX, 1993)
Country |
Product Rights |
Responsibilities |
Participants |
Restrictions |
Tenure rights |
Indonesia |
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 |
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 |
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