Community Forestry

Development cooperation, non-timber forest products and community empowerment: power and interests in a public-private partnership in the Brazilian Amazon

“…Coercion here assumes an economic facet, for example when the partner being assessed increase in taxes, decrease in production costs, market advantage); political interests are observed when an actor aims to expand its presence and influence, or directly cause changes in the country's policy. The remaining two are an adaptation of Schusser (2013), where so cial outcomes are those that empower communities involved in the project (i.e., through capacity-building) 4 , and environmental interests are those whose main aim is to decrease deforestation, maintain biodiversity, and improve environmental practices in areas where said communities collect NTFPs. The identified interests were then classified as non-existent, low, moderate and high.…”

“…Data collection consisted of an adaptation of the methodology proposed by Schusser et al . (2013). Due to the limited number of actors, in lieu of carrying out an initial quantitative survey, the first step consisted of a qualitative approach.…”

“…This study differs fromSchusser (2013), since the improvement of livelihoods is here seen as a form of economic empowerment, and therefore a social outcome instead of economic.388 A.A.O. Tavares and S.L.…”