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

[rmap.seminars at anu.edu.au]

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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