Community Forestry for livelihood Improvement: evidence from the intermediate zone, Sri lanka

Ekanayake, E. M. B. P.; Xie, Yi; Ahmad, Sami; Geldard, Robyn P.; Nissanka, Ayoma

doi:10.1080/10549811.2020.1794906

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“…They are used to sustaining livelihood on the utilization of natural resources and land use. Therefore, local people are both the main contributors and the most affected groups in CF programs [5,6,14]. Being a member of CF is a voluntary process where people can share information, express views, and communicate desires individually or through coordinated groups and have an option to influence decisions or the outcomes of the matter concerned [15].…”

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“…Secondly, we provide insight into rural Sri Lankans' perception and knowledge of the CF program. Most of the previous works in Sri Lanka were narrowly focusing on the impact of CF on livelihood without examining the rural residents' perceived status and knowledge of CF program [5,28].…”

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“…Though CF programs have advantages as improving forest condition, social stability, and rural incomes [4,5], and progressively reducing deforestation rates than protected forests [6], and supporting maintenance and restoration of forest resources [7], the community-based approaches have had inconsistent impacts, of which enhanced income and livelihood benefits have been questioned especially, in developing countries in Asia [8].…”

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Rural Residents’ Participation Intention in Community Forestry-Challenge and Prospect of Community Forestry in Sri Lanka

Ekanayake

Xie

Ahmad

2021

Forests

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The contribution of local communities has become widely recognized as a better alternative in forest management than the traditional command-based control approach. However, several years later of implementation, most programs were failed due to a lack of community participation, imposing an uncertain future for community forestry. This paper examines rural Sri Lankans’ participation intention in community forestry (CF) program by using the Probit regression model. Randomly selected 300 individuals representing both CF members and non-CF members were interviewed for the study. The study results indicate that rural residents’ intention in future CF program negatively correlated with the participation status (CF membership) of individuals. Accordingly, CF members show less participation intention in future CF program than non-CF members. Socio-economic variables such as education level (p < 0.01) and the occupation of head of the household (p < 0.05) and total household income (p < 0.01) have significant influences on individuals’ participation intention in CF. In addition, non-monetary benefits derived from CF and perception on the product regulation and conflict mitigation are also appeared to significantly and positively affect villagers’ intention. The findings also revealed the knowledge gap on the purpose of the CF program and CF policy design. Hence, require immediate attention to improve awareness. Moreover, failure to raise local people’s participation intention in CF may indicate inadequate or ineffective government policies. Therefore, the Department of Forest Conservation should take sound measures to ensure that community-based forest management policies are consistently implemented at different administrative levels across the country and its rightness should be evaluated strictly.

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Rural Residents’ Participation Intention in Community Forestry-Challenge and Prospect of Community Forestry in Sri Lanka

Ekanayake

Xie

Ahmad

2021

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“…There is an intermediate variable indicator, namely post-harvest wood processing (ACT3), according to Sukwika et al (2016), Apipoonyanon et al (2020) and Tadesse and Teketay (2020) this condition shows that forest farmers' timber administration is highly dependent on the participation of farmers in increasing timber value added through post-harvest wood processing (above 80% variant explained). Despite, the community forest program demonstrating direct results to livelihood improvement, more efforts are still needed to encourage alternative income sources to enable future generations to be less dependent on the forest (Ekanayake et al, 2020;Sukwika et al, 2020).…”

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“…From the technical point of view, the community of sustainable forest could be articulated beyond those three aspects. Some studies had addressed five aspects or dimension of sustainability: (1) economic; (2) social and culture; (3) ecology; (4) legal and institution; and (5) accessibility and technology (Apipoonyanon et al, 2020;Baral et al, 2018;Ekanayake et al, 2020;Sukwika et al, 2016;Sukwika et al, 2020;Tadesse & Teketay, 2020). In the sustainable development scheme, the relation among the three aspects will form equitable, viable, and bearable relationship, as resulted from the economic-social, economic-ecology, and social-ecology relations (Munasinghe, 1992), respectively (Figure 1).…”

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The Policy Model for Sustainable Community Forest: A Factor Analysis

Sukwika

Fransisca

2021

Ina.J.For.Res

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Developing and maintaining forest sustainably is a way to support sustainable development. From the technical point of view, the sustainability of community forest could be articulated not only based on the three aspects i.e. economic (ECO), social culture (SOC), ecology (EGY), but it can also include dimensions of legal & institutional (LIT), and accessibility & technology (ACT). This study aims to determine variables of sustainability dimensions that have a direct positive effect on the sustainability of the community forests (SCF), to identify variables that affect SCF and variables of sustainability dimensions that have dominant effect on SCF. This study employed 70 samples of forest farmers’ group in Bogor regency. The respondents were purposively selected based on consideration of the criteria for forest farmer groups namely beginner, intermediate, and advanced. The Analysis tools used PLS-SEM. Sustainability dimensions of ECO, EGY, LIT, and ACT have a significant positive direct effect on SCF. The mediational hypothesis testing suggested that there is a partial mediation from ECO and EGY to SCF, which is consistent and have a positive value. Based on the coefficient value of the total-effect, among the five dimensions, ecology value was the biggest and the most robust. The policy implies that the ecological aspects considered the importance and strategy. Therefore, the value and productivity of the community forest structure and composition need to be maintained.

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REDD+ framework and forest sustainability in Pakistan versus other South Asian countries: a multi-criteria-based analysis

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Environ Dev Sustain

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Community Forestry for livelihood Improvement: evidence from the intermediate zone, Sri lanka

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Rural Residents’ Participation Intention in Community Forestry-Challenge and Prospect of Community Forestry in Sri Lanka

Rural Residents’ Participation Intention in Community Forestry-Challenge and Prospect of Community Forestry in Sri Lanka

The Policy Model for Sustainable Community Forest: A Factor Analysis

REDD+ framework and forest sustainability in Pakistan versus other South Asian countries: a multi-criteria-based analysis

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