“…A contributing reason may be the manner in which silvicultural technologies have been applied. Nevertheless, until recently, forestry adoption studies have been concerned about biophysical rather than socio-economic variables (Mercer, 2004;Baynes and Herbohn, 2011). Furthermore, the evolving community-based and community driven extension practices, which are rather new, has brought up more emphasis on achieving consensus and joint actions by local people to solve the problems facing all the members, rather than on dealing with a few selected individuals (Kaudia at al., 2003).…”