[Anthropgrad] RMAP RESEARCH SEMINAR - Dr Sango Mahanty - 12.30-1.30pm Tuesday 8 July 2008

[RMAP Seminars]

A FAIR SHARE? SHARING THE BENEFITS AND COSTS OF COLLABORATIVE FOREST 
MANAGEMENT

Dr Sango Mahanty
Research and Teaching Fellow, RMAP

Tuesday 8 July 2008
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room) Coombs Building

Abstract
Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) has attracted significant 
attention in Asia in recent years, with estimates that around 18 per 
cent of the forest area is now under some form of of collaborative or 
local management. Advocates of CFM suggest that it has the potential to 
integrate sustainable forest management with the welfare of the rural 
poor. Whether this potential is realised in practice largely depends on 
what types of benefits are created through CFM, whether communities are 
able to secure any of these, and how they are distributed locally.
 
This seminar reports on a collaborative activity by the Regional 
Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC), 
WWF's Greater Mekong Programme, the Netherlands Development Organisation 
(SNV) and FAO on Asian experiences in benefit sharing from 
community-managed forests. The results from a series of sub-regional 
workshops on benefit sharing in CFM (in Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR) 
were synthesised and presented to a group of senior forest policy makers 
from 14 countries in Asia to stimulate discussion on benefit sharing 
issues. This seminar will share findings from this regional forum on why 
the flow of benefits from community-managed forests to local actors is 
lower than it might be, particularly focusing on governance issues at 
the national and local level.

Bio
Sango is a Research and Teaching Fellow at RMAP, and teaches in the 
Masters of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development. With a 
background in human geography and development studies, Sango has worked 
in research, capacity building and program implementation on the social 
dimensions of resource management and development in the Asia-Pacific. 
Her research interests broadly encompass livelihoods, relationships and 
politics in resource governance, with current projects in collaborative 
forest management and payments for environmental services.

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Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

The Australian National University

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