Growing from Seed

Social Forestry and its most well-known variant, Community Forestry, have been practiced almost as long as people have used forests. During this time, forests have provided people with countless goods and services, including wood, medicine, food, clean water and recreation. In making use of forest resources, people throughout history have frequently organized themselves and established both formal and informal rules. However, just as the discipline of Forestry had previously limited and concentrated the function of forests to the timber it provides, the popular understanding of Social Forestry.

Growing from Seed; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Introduction: Basic Concepts of Social Forestry; All Forestry Is Social Forestry; What Is Social Forestry and How Did It Come About?; As Research, Social Forestry Is "Interdisciplinary"; Terms in This Section; Chapter 2: People and Forests: The Relationship Between Society and Natural Resources; What Are the Tree Species Used, and What Kinds of Forest Products Are Extracted?; Who Are the People Who Use the Forests?; How Do These People Use and Manage the Forest?; What Are the Tree and Land Tenure Arrangements in the Community?

What Are the Long-Term and Short-Term Strategies of the Community in Using the Forest?But What About Sustainability?; Terms in This Section; Chapter 3: Communities in Tropical Forests : Examples of Cultures and Societies That Depend on the Forests for Their Livelihood and Sustenance; Case 1: Why Planting More Trees Is Not Always the Answer to Deforestation in the Sudan; Case 2: How Indigenous and Migrant Communities Share a Forest in Palawan, Philippines; Case 3: When the Makeshift Solution Becomes the Problem in Brazil; Terms in This Section.

Chapter 4: Participation: The Methodology of Social…