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Local control of forest resources holds opportunities and challenges

Published on 01 May 2004

Hope for a reversal in rampant deforestation and the gripping poverty that millions of people suffer from in developing countries as a result of resource mismanagement must lie in participation of local communities, says David Kaimowitz, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.