For Environment, Democracy and Livelihoods
Community forestry is known to provide opportunities for economic development. Through small and medium scale enterprises, community forestry has generated income and employment to rural communities. However, it’s the potential on generating income and scalable business models has not been fully realized. Similarly, majority of the lucrative forest-based enterprises, for instance timber enterprisers, are largely dominated by men whereas small scale enterprises, mainly non-timber forest products (NTFPs) based, have involved women and have generated opportunities in terms of income and employment. Yet, women face struggles in terms of registering forest-based business, finance their enterprises, and selling their products, which are relatively less examined. Thus, evidence-based knowledge generation for linking women to productive resource-decisions, and entrepreneur linkage to enhance community-based enterprises for climate and social resilience is crucial.
This special issue on forest-based enterprises presents seven papers focusing on community forestry and women’s empowerment, barriers, and reforms in women’s access to resources, timber production potential and financial governance in CFUGs and success and challenges of community based enterprises.
2024 – Special Issue on Forest Based Enterprises Vol 24 (1) – Full Document