Invited Spaces and Informal Practices in Participatory Community Forest Management in India

Nandigama, Sailaja

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5113-2_5

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“…Informality exists and persists in part because it works. The dynamics and structures of product supply chains are rooted in local institutional arrangements, customary rights and practices, and power positions of local actors (Menzies, 2007;Nandigama, 2013). In the Amazon, informality provides flexibility and adaptability to actors according to local ecological conditions, geographies, and social structures and relationships (Sears and Pinedo-Vasquez, 2011).…”

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“…In this paper, the third in a series evaluating the relevance of the recent forest policy reform to smallholder farmers, we illustrate how the informal yet highly functional timber supply chain originating in agricultural fallows persists, even while the state attempts to regulate and formalize it. As a result of this evaluation, we eventually reconceptualize the formalization process, from the state imposing regulations that reflect little of the local reality to an adaptive process of building on the existing informal arrangements and practices to bring production and trade into compliance at least with principles of equity and sustainability, if not with strict standards (Nandigama, 2013;Khadka et al, 2014;Pulhin and Ramirez, 2016). Such a process would entail reflecting on the purpose of formalization and the interests of state actors and others involved in the supply chain.…”

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Hiding in Plain Sight: How a Fallow Forestry Supply Chain Remains Illegitimate in the Eyes of the State

Sears

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Ruiz

et al. 2021

Front. For. Glob. Change

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On-farm timber production is an important subsistence and economic activity of smallholder farmers around the world. Farmer investment in wood production and the degree of formality in the sector depends on access to and conditions of the market, the nature of the regulatory frameworks that govern rights to and movement of timber, and access to financing. We evaluate the process of formalization of a thriving and adaptive existing supply chain for small-dimension lumber originating in the fallows of smallholder farmers in the Peruvian Amazon. Through field research over three years based in semi-structured interviews with diverse actors in the Amazon, we found that the supply chain for fallow timber is driven entirely by informal and some illegal transactions. A key reason for this is the lack of an appropriate regulatory mechanism by which producers can gain authorization to harvest and sell this timber. We identify conditions necessary to formalize this sector, and evaluate the degree to which these are met under several scenarios. We recommend that the state develop mechanisms that recognize property rights of long-term residents and establish a simple fallow forestry registration mechanism; and that local governments or non-governmental organizations adopt adaptive and collaborative approaches to support farmers and provide training, information and networking among actors. State recognition of and support for fallow forestry, coupled with producers organizing for collective action on processing and marketing their timber, could result in the formalization of a significant volume of timber, improvements in income security for rural people, and the development of local entrepreneurial activities.

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Section: Informality and The Question Of Formalizationmentioning

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Section: Informality and The Question Of Formalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hiding in Plain Sight: How a Fallow Forestry Supply Chain Remains Illegitimate in the Eyes of the State

Sears

Cronkleton

Ruiz

et al. 2021

Front. For. Glob. Change

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“…According to CBNRM, adaptive management must pay attention to economic and political factors in managing community-based resources. This needs to Hafidh, et al, The Practice of Community-Based Water Resource Management in Rural Indonesia be brought into attention as a first step to anticipate dependency problems that hinder the implementation of an inclusive situation (Nandigama, 2012). In this context, economics and politics are interpreted as how access to resources in different groups of people affects different resource management actions as a result (Nandigama, 2012).…”

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The Practice of Community-Based Water Resource Management in Rural Indonesia

2021

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Although The government has issued various regulations and models of water resources governance at the local level, community-based water resources governance is needed in responding to challenges in water resource management. This paper discusses the case of water resources management in Srogol village (Cigombong sub-district, Bogor district) which applies a community-based water resources governance model known as Janggol. Culturally, Janggol has been deeply rooted in the social system in the Bogor area. Janggol in the upstream Cisadane watershed was appointed in 2018 to manage the water supplied to the community from the Ciwaluh spring. However, in practice the community-based management that is implemented is often wrong in its function and creates other quite complex problems. This research aims to analyze why the implementation of community-based water resource management in Srogol village is not optimal and what efforts must be made to encourage sustainable natural resource management using the concept of Community-based natural resource management. This research uses a qualitative approach, by extracting data using an interview process to predetermined stakeholders. Based on the research results, the water management carried out by Janggol is not optimal due to the lack of adaptation of managers in water management, the lack of community participation in water management, and the lack of knowledge of Janggol in providing services as an institution.

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“…These legacies often place communities at a power disadvantage when negotiating with other CBNRM actors and can preclude positive outcomes for communities (Nadasdy 2012, Mosimane andSilva 2015). In fact, CBNRM has often been critiqued as further cementing existing power differentials between communities and governing CBNRM institutions or structures as well as marginalizing communities by favoring community elites (Nandigama 2012, Anguelovski and Martinez Alier 2014, Stamm 2017.…”

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Can the center hold? Boundary actors and marginality in a community-based natural resource management network

Snorek¹,

Bolger²

2022

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Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) seeks to align the interests of local communities and conservation institutions. A significant challenge to this realignment is that CBNRM is often implemented in locations with colonial histories of oppression, persecution, and dispossession that have left legacies of inequity and marginalization. Social networks are one method for discerning how marginalized CBNRM actors can negotiate entitlements and agency. Through the lens of social networks, marginalization can be viewed as insufficient connectivity between the center and the periphery of the network. One possible remedy to this dysfunction are boundary actors, which are thought to be vital to connecting parts of social networks that would otherwise be poorly connected. Using social network analysis to visualize interactions between the Topnaar community and CBNRM institutional actors in Namibia's Namib-Naukluft and Dorob National Parks, we find a number of individuals well-positioned to serve as boundary actors. Although our results suggest these individuals can be effective in sharing and translating key knowledge, supporting transfers of benefits, and enabling or negotiating entitlements, we also found that social, political, institutional, and geographic constraints limited their effectiveness. In particular, the Topnaar Traditional Authority, adopted a "neo-traditional," top-down, gatekeeper role, while their community wanted them to be more responsive and engaged in directly addressing the communities' problems. In general, the boundary actors were the focus of much discontent and conflict, in large part because of unclear pathways of accountability. We recommend the co-creation of boundary objects that specify responsibilities and thus reduce conflict and support effective boundary actors.

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Invited Spaces and Informal Practices in Participatory Community Forest Management in India

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Hiding in Plain Sight: How a Fallow Forestry Supply Chain Remains Illegitimate in the Eyes of the State

Hiding in Plain Sight: How a Fallow Forestry Supply Chain Remains Illegitimate in the Eyes of the State

The Practice of Community-Based Water Resource Management in Rural Indonesia

Can the center hold? Boundary actors and marginality in a community-based natural resource management network

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