Forest & Livelihood: Issues & Conflict

As we know, the forest community in the world today is faced with various problems and conflicts that could threaten their lives and the forests. Therefore, we must recognize the problem or conflict that we can assist in distributing proposals to overcome them. Among the issues or conflicts faced by community forests are listed below:

1. Financial support

The most critical in terms of livelihoods and the relatively weak generation of financial capital for the forest dependent poor and women.

2. Forest degradation

The livelihoods of the local forest dependent communities, particularly the poor and disadvantaged, have not improved as expected.

3. Community Forestry policy

The implementation of community forestry policy has inflicted added costs to the poor, such as reduced access to forest products and forced allocation of household resources for communal forest management with insecurity over the benefits.

4. Issue of Community

The poorest are the ones who are suffered the most since they cannot afford to participate and hardly speak, are rarely heard and benefit from community forestry. The unequal social structure in terms of class, caste, gender and regional disparity, there is unequal access to decision-making, to opportunities, to contribute and to benefits.

5. Management Issues

Yet there is little experience related to the ways government agencies can best decentralize resource use authority, and support the establishment of effective local community controls. Beside that, forest may be converted to agricultural land or tree plantations.

6. Institutional issues in community forestry

From the earliest human communities, people throughout the world have had to decide who could use what resources, when, where and how. These rules, created by people to manage their resources, are defined here as institutional arrangements. Land and tree tenure regulations and various procedures that communities develop to deal with conflict are clearly institutional arrangements.

I hope we keep also the interests of forest communities around the world as they also have an interest & need the attention of people outside. They also should be defended because they also help maintain and manage the forests in the world. Measures should be taken so that no problems or conflicts they have had.

Love our nature as the community forestry love it