“…But if well adapted to conservation management, it can be one of the most cost-effective options, both economically and socially, for many farming-dependent communities in protected areas. Therefore, when the global conservation discourse shifted from fortress conservation to more socially-inclusive conservation, the continuation and optimization of traditional agricultural industries seemed possible and even necessary to address the legal right of resource use by the local people and to avoid illegal resource use behaviors and hostile attitudes toward conservation policies by community residents (Redpath et al, 2013;Rai et al, 2021). At this time, policymakers and conservation managers, i.e., the major external stakeholders, did not regard traditional agricultural industries as inefficient and even harmful to the environment due to their dependence on biodiversity and natural resources (Colchester, 1996;Vedeld et al, 2012) anymore, and the challenge was to empower the local community and people, i.e., the local stakeholders, to adapt to the rapidly growing needs of conservation by mitigating or eliminating the negative impacts from disordered traditional agricultural industries (Folke et al, 2010), and mainstreaming local communities in resource use and benefit sharing (Mariki, 2013;.…”