As seen on Next Billion – Development Through Enterprise

Local hut engineers and builders in the Timbaktu collective forest village” in Andhrapradesh” India. All building materials” such as grass” bamboo” and rocks” are gathered from the forest. (Photo credit: Leena Gupta” SPWD.org).

Members of the Amazonian municipality of Ilha das Cinzas” Gurupá in Brazil” transport timber from the forest to the saw mill. (Photo credit: Luiz Joels Carlos/RRI)

[1] Community owned forests & local participation in rule making linked to significantly lower carbon emissions in a sample of 80 forests in East Africa” South Asia” and Latin America. Chaatre and Agrawal” PNAS” 2009.  See also:

–    Multiple use protected areas in Asia & Latin America limited fires more than strictly protected areas. Indigenous territories were much more effective– Nelson and Chomitz” 2011.

–    Community managed forests presented lower and less variable annual deforestation rates than protected forests – Porter-Bolland” et. al 2011

–    Indigenous territories limited deforestation much more than strictly protected areas and somewhat more than sustainable use areas. (Remoteness & environmental factors held constant.) – Soares Filho et al” PNAS” 2009.

–    Nepal: Review of multiple local studies finds fewer fires” higher tree density and diameters” improved forest cover” and less grazing in community forests. Ojha” Persha & Chhatre” IFPRI” 2010

–    Tanzania: The forest basal areas & volumes improved in a sample of 13 community managed and joint managed forest sites” while they declined in a sample of government forests. – Blomley et al.” Oryx” 2008

[2] Rabah Arezki” Klaus Deininger” and Harris Selod” “Global Land Rush”” Finance and Development” March 2012″ Vol. 49″ No. 1.

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