During a workshop in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, Cameroonian community and government leaders provide strategies for recognizing the rights of communities who live within state forest reserves. The workshop was organized by the Centre for Economic Development (CED) with support from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), Worlde AgroForestry Center (ICRAF), Coop?rative Agroforesti?re de la Trinationale (CAFT), Cameroon Ecology, and the Government of Cameroon. Participants agreed that community enclaves and agro-forestry zones in the periphery of the state reserves should be clearly defined, and the reserves partially declassified to give communities land ownership rights.