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Community-based conservation of forests is participatory in nature and takes a more holistic, integrative approach to the problems facing forest-dependent communities. NTFP-EP applies this holistic approach as opposed to the mainstream top-down approaches which tend to be designed with very specific objectives, sometimes conflicting with the interests of the community NTFP-EP’s projects are holistic, integrated…

Forest tenure is a broad concept that includes ownership, tenancy and other arrangements for the use of forests. It is a combination of legally or customarily defined forest ownership and of rights and arrangements to manage and use forest resources. Forest tenure determines who can use what resources, for how long and under what conditions….

Within forest-fringe communities in South and Southeast Asia, the livelihoods of the people are largely dependent on subsistence agriculture. Alternatively, it also entails the exploitation of the natural resources including forest resource supplies as integral part of the larger socio-economic sustainability of these communities. NTFP-EP’s goal of assisting sustainable livelihoods of forest-dependent communities is a…