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  • 7/27/2019 Case Studies UNDP: PRED NAI MANGROVE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP, Thailand

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    Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

    Thailand

    PRED NAI MANGROVECONSERVATION ANDDEVELOPMENT GROUP

    Empowered live

    Resilient nation

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    UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES

    Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo

    or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth

    their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition

    themselves guiding the narrative.

    To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser

    that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ

    to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models

    replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Years

    the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.

    Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.

    EditorsEditor-in-Chie: Joseph Corcoran

    Managing Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding

    Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver Hughe

    Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma,

    Mary McGraw, Gabriele Orlandi, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu

    DesignOliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la Parra, Brandon Payn

    Mariajos Satizbal G.

    AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Pred Nai Mangrove Conservation and Development Group. All photo cred

    courtesy o RECOFTC The Center or People and Forests. Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia.

    Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2012. Pred Nai Mangrove Conservation and Development Group, Thailand. Equator Initiat

    Case Study Series. New York, NY.

    http://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_winners&view=casestudysearch&Itemid=858
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    PROJECT SUMMARY

    This community-based organization was ounded in themid-1980s to reverse the eects o destructive mangroveharvesting near the coastal village o Pred Nai. A parallelgoal was the recovery o local crab populations, whichare an important source o income or poorer members othe community. Ater developing a strong track-record osuccessul orest management and ecosystem restoration,the group became a model and point o reerenceor sweeping policy reorms that transerred orestmanagement authority to communities.

    Since 2003, Pred Nai has developed a network that includesa number o other local villages, becoming ormalized asthe Community Coastal Resource Management Network,Trat Province. Through exchanging knowledge and sharingexperiences with community orestry, these villageshave learned rom each others successes and ailures;the network has served as the basis or a climate changeadaptation programme or coastal communities.

    KEY FACTS

    EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2004

    FOUNDED: 1993

    LOCATION: Pred Nai, Trat Province, Thailand

    BENEFICIARIES: 130 households

    BIODIVERSITY: 1,920 Hectares of coastal mangroves

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    PRED NAI MANGROVE CONSERVATIONAND DEVELOPMENT GROUPThailand

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Background and Context 4

    Key Activities and Innovations 6

    Biodiversity Impacts 7

    Socioeconomic Impacts 7

    Policy Impacts 8

    Sustainability 9

    Replication 9

    Partners 9

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    On the eastern seacoast o Thailand, near the Cambodian border,

    es one o the last remaining mangrove orests in the country.

    his species-rich tropical mangrove orest is dominated by redRhizophora and Bruguirea spp.) and black (Avicennia spp.) mangrove

    rees. With trees and shrubs that are adapted to the high salinity

    nd water-logging o tidal environments, these orests are highly

    roductive ecosystems that support a diverse variety o wildlie and

    velihoods or coastal communities. Less than 10% o the original

    stimated 48,000 hectares o Thailands mangrove orests remain

    oday, however, thanks to the conversion o these coastal areas or

    igh-impact commercial activities.

    mpact o commercial cultivation on local livelihoods

    During the 1980s, logging and intensive shrimp arming caused

    major declines in agricultural productivity and resulted in the loss o

    iodiversity in the mangroves. Logging concessions were granted by

    he government to corporations, and oten restricted local villagers

    rom harvesting crabs, shellsh, and other mangrove resources.

    he deorested lands were then converted to ponds or intensive

    hrimp arming. The large-scale nature o these concessions resulted

    n widespread damage to the mangrove orests that could not be

    eversed through small-scale replanting and natural re-growth.

    red Nai was one o the communities hardest hit by the loss o the

    mangrove orests. The village lies in the province o Trat, to the east one o the largest contiguous ragments o mangrove orests in

    hailand, covering 1,920 hectares. In 2004 the village comprised 130

    ouseholds. The main uses o land within the village area depend on

    he elevation and distance rom the sea: lowlands are used or rice

    nd sh arming, while the uplands have houses, ruit gardens, and

    ubber plantations. Livelihoods o community members rely on rice,

    ruits, and rubber cultivation, and are supplemented with harvests

    resources such as crabs rom the mangroves. The destruction o

    mangrove orests impacted heavily on household ood security and

    ources o income, particularly through the loss o marine resources.

    In 1985, resistance to these trends reached a peak when ne

    logging concessions over-harvested the mangroves and prohi

    villagers rom harvesting crabs, shellsh, sh and other resourc

    the concession areas. Other local commercial interests conve

    degraded mangrove areas into shrimp arms and built a gat

    block seawater, which urther damaged the mangrove ecosys

    In response to these threats to their livelihoods, the villagers o

    Nai came together to prevent urther destruction o the mangr

    and to better manage them or their sustained wellbeing. The i

    resistance to destruction o the mangroves was marshaled by a g

    o ten villagers, and successully halted commercial logging in 1

    The gate was destroyed and roads into Pred Nai were blockade

    villagers in the ace o concerted opposition and intimidation logging interests.

    Background and Context

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    From resistance to proactive management

    he villagers initially developed a orest management plan under

    he Pred Nai Community Forestry Group (PNCFG) that conducted

    ntensive mapping o orest resources and instituted orest patrols to

    revent illegal logging and charcoal production. The group initiated

    ree-planting activities in degraded mangrove areas and developed

    egulations on crab harvesting that prohibited any harvesting

    uring crab reproduction periods.

    ven ater the concessions stopped, however, it was dicult to

    revent outsiders rom nearby villages and arther away rom

    arvesting or destroying resources within the mangrove area.

    rohibitions on shing in the mangroves aected the poorest

    illagers and shers whose livelihoods depended on the mangroves.

    A key component o the groups eorts in reversing the trend o

    eorestation thereore was winning widespread support rom

    ocal communities. In 1993, with the help o a local Buddhist monk

    nd the support o village elders, the core group o villagers began

    aising awareness o the importance o protecting the areas natural

    heritage. The monk also helped to create a village savings group

    provided low-interest loans to villagers or investing in educa

    and healthcare, while keeping the earnings rom the interest w

    the community. Now known as the Pred Nai Mangrove Conserva

    and Development Group, the initiative currently oversees a va

    o community development projects.

    Partnerships have been critical or the success o the Pred

    initiative, especially during its early years. The group has engsheries researchers or technical assistance with monito

    methods and new ideas to improve the sustainable manageme

    their mangroves. The Thailand Royal Forest Department (RFD

    part o the Ministry o the Environment) also played a crucial

    in developing a management plan that helped the group to ev

    rom an inormal orest patrolling group into a ormal exam

    o village-based orest management. Since 1999, Pred Nai

    partnered with the Regional Community Forestry Training Ce

    or Asia and the Pacic (RECOFTC), a not-or-prot organization

    specializes in capacity building or community orestry and devo

    orest management.

    We have received a lot of training and support in the development of our knowledge cente

    mangrove management systems, and the creation of the sub-district network through RECOFT

    and other organizations, but we are facing new challenges now from climate change, and nee

    technical and institutional support.

    Mr. Amporn Phaetsat, President of the Pred Nai Mangrove Conservation and Development Group

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    Key Activities and Innovations

    ince 1993, the Pred Nai initiative has ocused on the sustainable

    management o marine resources, ecological monitoring within the

    mangrove orests, and raising environmental awareness among the

    ommunities o Pred Nai and neighbouring villages.

    nstituting sustainable orest management

    As part o the villages rst management activity, volunteers planted

    rees in denuded mangrove areas. Over time, some stands have begun

    o regenerate naturally thanks to strict protection under harvesting

    egulations. Harvesting regulations were also introduced or the

    Grapsid crab (Metopograpsus sp.) in 1997. These rules specied the

    losure o the harvest during the crabs breeding period in October.hese small crabs are typically harvested or sale locally. For another

    conomically important species the Giant Mud Crab (Scylla serrata)

    villagers set out to increase production by instituting a crab bank.

    egg-bearing crabs were caught, they were placed in one o several

    ages established by the management group in the village canals.

    red Nai Mangrove Conservation and Development Group also

    ook action to prevent destructive shing practices, and have

    xperimented with thinning the dense natural stands o Ceriops

    mangroves. Fisheries researchers have been engaged to assist with

    monitoring o these eorts and collection o relevant data. Analysis

    o the process and results is refected in subsequent planning cycles.

    his conscious learning process has been an important aspect o theroups success.

    Network development or scaling-up success

    n 2003, the Pred Nai management concluded that the people o a

    ingle community could not eectively implement successul and

    ustainable management policies across a wide area o coastal

    mangrove orests, especially since boundaries were not demarcated

    nd there was a lack o existing regulations on orest use. The group

    eveloped a network that included a number o other local villages.

    This was initially limited to those villages bordering Pred Nai; it qu

    expanded to a larger number along the coast, becoming orma

    as the Community Coastal Resource Management Network,

    Province. Through exchanging knowledge and sharing experie

    with community orestry, these villages have learned rom

    others successes and ailures. Their collaboration has also allo

    them to initiate new ideas and practices that eectively respon

    community needs.

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    Impacts

    BIODIVERSITY IMPACTShe chie biodiversity impact o the Pred Nai project has been the

    estoration and protection o 1,920 hectares o coastal mangrove

    orest. This substantial regeneration o mangrove orest cover

    as also allowed or the return o wildlie species to the coastal

    rea. Villagers report that stocks o crab, shellsh, and sh have

    ll increased. Many water birds like the Painted stork (Mycteria

    eucocephala), Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus), Purple

    eron (Ardea purpurea), Grey heron (A. cinerea), Indian Whistling

    Duck (Dendrocygna javanica) and Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus) are

    eturning, while Crab-eating macaques (Macaca ascicularis) have

    een reported as returning ater disappearing during the logging

    eriod. Razor Clams (Solen strictus Gould) known locally as Hoi Lod,

    ut absent rom the area or twenty years, have also reappeared

    hanks to improved ecological conditions.

    Villagers have also moved beyond protection o the mangrove orests

    nd their species to more proactive methods o management. Pred

    Nai Mangrove Conservation and Development Group has advocated

    or the sustainable harvesting o mud crabs, or instance, rather than

    imple protection. This arose partly as a response to diculties in

    rying to prohibit access to these economically-valuable species. Mud

    rabs have become especially valuable thanks to their increasing

    arity as mangroves have disappeared along Thailands coastline.

    Community members who were interested in cultivating mud crabsor sale ormed a group to increase production. This group acilitates

    he exchange o ideas between members, and has sought the advice

    sheries researchers who specialize in crab aquarium breeding.

    ncreases in crab species have been seen through increased

    arvesting yields or poorer members o the village. Harvests o

    Grapsid crabs (Metopographus spp.), or instance, have almost

    oubled rom approximately 8 kg per day per harvester in 1998 to

    5 kg per day in 2004 ater regulations were introduced to prohibit

    arvesting during the crabs breeding period. The introduction o

    technologies or improving crab harvests, coupled with impro

    population management techniques, has helped to inculcate a

    conservation ethic or the networks small-scale harvesters.

    SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS

    The immediate beneciaries o the sustainable managemen

    the villages mangrove resources have been the poorer mem

    o the community. Pred Nai as a village is not especially poor

    crab collecting is an important economic activity or the low-inc

    households o the village. As well as providing marine resou

    the mangrove ecosystem is the basis o a way o lie or the

    Nai village as a whole. Local management eorts have also spu

    other community development activities.

    As o 2004, there were approximately 20 part-time crab collec

    25-30 part-time or seasonal collectors, and numerous crab bu

    and processors in the village. Sustained, healthy population

    both Grapsid and Giant Mud Crabs support the livelihoods o t

    community members. Anecdotal evidence supplied by villa

    suggests that the income level o villagers involved in crab collec

    has almost doubled as a result o improved catches o Grapsid c

    While exact gures on income are not available, data suggest

    the poorer villagers engaged in crab collection could earn 600

    baht (USD 15-18) per day. Collectors can also nd crabs much mquickly as a result o greater availability, particularly in the low sea

    this provides opportunities or additional economic activities.

    Articial sh houses made rom blocks o used car tyres have b

    installed in the villages canals. This has reduced the time nee

    or sh harvesting. Pred Nai villagers have also begun attemp

    restore the coastline, advocating or a 3,000-metre conserva

    zone extending that would protect the coast rom destructive s

    practices like use o push nets and trawlers. This would allow

    stocks to regenerate and increase the economic potential o s

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    Diversifed livelihoods and education options

    The Pred Nai community orestry project has encouraged villagers

    o initiate other livelihood activities based on the mangrove orests.

    A savings management group ormed in 1995 had more than 600

    members and a und totaling nearly six million baht (about USD

    72,000) in 2004. Through loans to community members, this und

    has allowed the development o small-scale enterprises within the

    village. Examples o recent ventures have included a marketing

    ystem or locally-produced goods, processing edible crackers maderom mangrove plants, and producing local wine. Other community

    organizations have been established, including a womens group

    and a youth group.

    Local education has also benetted rom the Pred Nai initiative.

    Villagers have collaborated with schools and village elders to

    educate school children about mangrove ecology and coastal

    esources, using the mangrove community orest as a learning

    aboratory. Young community members have joined adult villagers

    n the planting programme and the orest thinning experiment.

    The villagers have also constructed a walkway in the mangrove

    or educational purposes. The success and prole o Pred Nai was

    ecognized when, in July 2003, the Asia-Pacic Economic CommunityAPEC) sponsored a group o school children rom various countries

    o attend an environmental camp and carry out eldwork at the

    villages mangrove orest site.

    POLICY IMPACTS

    The successul example o Pred Nais attempts to manage their orests

    has received substantial attention at the national and international

    evels, lending substantive support to calls or the devolution o

    orest management to the community level in Thailand and other

    Asian nations. Proponents o joint orestry management schemes

    or community-based orestry have pointed to Pred Nais economicand ecological impacts as proo that the involvement o local

    people in natural resource management can have conservation and

    development benets.

    Devolution o orest management in Thailand

    Recognition o Pred Nai dates back to 2002, when the project won

    an award rom Thailands Royal Forest Department. As a prominent

    example o successul cooperation between the countrys national

    orest authority and a local community, the project was well-placed

    o act as a fagship or sweeping orest policy reorm. Legislative

    upport or local orest management eorts has been debated

    or several decades in Thailand; the Thai Constitution stipulates

    hat local communities have the right to participate in natural

    esource management, and in practice this has been recognized

    ince the 1970s. Supporting this is the Decentralization Act o

    988, which enables local government units to acilitate local

    peoples engagement in natural resource management, allowing or

    assistance in developing management plans, accessing resources,

    and networking. By 1989, an estimated 8,000 community orestry

    ites existed in Thailand; today there are approximately 10,000 such

    ites.

    Obstacles still exist to ull community orestry, how

    predominantly rom a coalition o academics and environment

    who have argued or minimal human activity in Thailands prote

    areas, apart rom recreation. Thailands Royal Forest Departm

    a part o the Ministry o Natural Resources and Environmen

    responsible or all orests not in protected areas, has long suppo

    community orestry, and has a sub-department that supp

    communities such as Pred Nai in legalizing sites. In con

    the Ministrys National Park, Wildlie, and Plant Conserva

    Department, responsible or protected-area orests, has la

    worked to prevent community orestry in protected areas, opera

    under the exclusionary National Park law.

    Debates on community orestry have raged in Thailands legisl

    since 1991. In March 2000, a community orestry bill was subm

    to the Thai Parliament with 52,698 signatures. Ater a parliame

    commission was set up to examine the bill, however,

    dissolution o Parliament three months later halted the proce

    media campaign was successul in changing the compositio

    parliamentary committees, arguing or more inclusiveness, and

    a new government was elected, a new commission was created

    third o its members were peoples representatives. This comminalized the drated bill, which was then approved by the lo

    house o Parliament. The bills ocus was changed dramatically b

    Senates upper house, however. The critical part o the bill dea

    with devolved orestry management Article 18, which stated

    people settled in national parks, wildlie sanctuaries and waters

    prior to the date the orests were declared protected could con

    to manage and make sustainable use o orest products

    deleted by the Senate. There were various reasons or this. S

    senators cited concerns that i villagers received rights to ma

    the orest, they would convert the ertile orest to grow cash c

    others elt that outsiders might abuse the bill by encroachin

    protected orest and then claiming the right to manage it.

    The Community Forest Bill was eventually passed in November

    by Thailands National Legislative Assembly. While there have

    problems with its implementation, and there is still no recogn

    or community orests that overlap with protected areas ae

    between one and two million local people who depend on

    resources rom these orest areas this bill nonetheless bui

    many o the most successul aspects o the Pred Nai initiative.

    National-level eorts to promote local management o

    resources continue to fourish thanks to the eorts o a va

    o actors, including the Royal Forest Department, NGOs suc

    The Center or People and Forests (RECOFTC), based in Bang

    and Thailands emerging community orestry networks. Tnetworks, such as the Community Coastal Resource Managem

    Network in Trat Province, have proven to be an important ve

    or sharing lessons learned and practical experience or settin

    and managing sites. They also give supporters a stronger voi

    advocate or legislative reorms. Networks typically include a r

    o members, rom the Tambon (sub-district administrative

    and district levels through to the Community Forestry Assem

    which operates nationally. As o 2010, meanwhile, the Royal Fo

    Department had ormally recognized and registered around 7

    community orests, all outside o protected areas, and it is act

    seeking to register more.

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    Sustainability and Replication

    SUSTAINABILITYhe steady growth o project activities in Pred Nai since the mid-1980s

    s testament to its resilience and broad-based support rom local

    eople and national agencies, while the substantial management

    apacity that has been developed through the Pred Nai Mangrove

    Conservation and Development Group ensures that the initiative is

    well-equipped to sustain its impact over time.

    he initiative has operated at the local level since its inception,

    while also strengthening relationships with government and non-

    overnmental partners. Reliance on these partners has decreased

    ver time, however. In the early days o community action, PredNai villagers typically contacted local government authorities or

    ssistance; nowadays, when problems arise within the community

    he group is able to initiate local solutions. New ventures such as

    eveloping ecotourism acilities are being discussed at the village

    evel in conjunction with partner organizations.

    REPLICATION

    red Nais high prole has won it support rom within Thailand

    nd the international donor community or its community-based

    esponse to the loss o orests. This has led to the identication o the

    roject as a model or community-based resilience in the ace o the

    rowing threats o climate change. Mangrove reorestation providesn attractive option or both mitigation and adaptation: regenerating

    oastal orests that sequester carbon rom the atmosphere, and are

    hereore eligible or pilot REDD+ schemes; and creating a barrier

    gainst extreme fooding events such as tsunamis.

    n 2011, this role or Pred Nai was recognized by the creation o a

    limate change learning exchange network or coastal communities.

    ECOFTC and the Norwegian Agency or Development Cooperation

    Norad) launched the rst phase o the Coastal Resource Management

    hrough Community-based Learning Centers project, which will

    earmark USD 150,000 to train communities in six sub-districts

    project is part o a larger USD 5,650,000 million Mangroves o

    Future regional tsunami initiative, supported by Norway, Swe

    Thailand, and other donors.

    The Community-based Learning Centers component will

    in restoring some 5,150 hectares o mangrove orest along

    coastline, which will serve as a greenbelt, carbon sink, and an inc

    source rom seaood. This represents a wide-scale expansion o

    Pred Nai model to neighbouring communities, and builds on

    ty workshops conducted by RECOFTC with coastal commun

    between 2009 and 2011 addressing the local impacts o cli

    change.

    The launch o this programme on 29-30 April 2011 was attende

    representatives rom the Norwegian and Swedish governmen

    well as rom RECOFTC, and included a speech rom the Preside

    the Pred Nai Mangrove Conservation and Development Grou

    the lessons the group has learned rom more than two decad

    community-based resource management.

    Two other innovative pilots encouraged under the programm

    the adoption o a low-carbon liestyle in one community and

    leveraging o the unique Pred Nai Community Mangrove F

    Management Fund, which could act as a prototype or a u

    village climate change und.

    PARTNERS

    The work o Pred Nai Mangrove Conservation and Develop

    Group has incorporated innovative partnerships and a wide r

    o participants. Local users o the mangroves area have been

    central participants in this. Following the initial end o log

    concessions, the groups central committee was required to bec

    more inclusive and democratic, incorporating the views o all t

    within Pred Nai who relied on the mangrove orest resources.

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    artnerships also needed to be established with other villages

    who wished to use the resources. In 2003, the Community Coastal

    esource Management Network was created to enable dialogues

    with several partner villages to ensure broad support or sustainable

    arvesting o the coastal orests. This body meets in dierent villages

    n a rotating basis, and has served as the basis or the Community-

    ased Learning Centers project unded by RECOFTC.

    illagers have gained experience in working collaboratively withutsiders such as shery experts and oresters. Relationships

    with other institutions such as government orestry and shery

    epartments, police patrols and politicians have also been important

    or helping the group to overcome unding or technical challenges

    o implementation o projects. The provincial governor became an

    active supporter o Pred Nais initiative and their network ate

    visited the project. Religious institutions have also been impor

    partners or securing grassroots support.

    Pred Nai has benetted rom the support o The Center or Pe

    and Forests (RECOFTC) since 1998. This regional NGO has condu

    some 50 workshops to help villagers handle resource confict

    climate change impacts in recent years. Much o this innova

    work is supported by the Norwegian Agency or DevelopmCooperation (Norad), the Swedish International Developm

    Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the Royal Thai Government w

    as core donors, have provided nancial support or RECOFTCs g

    in community orestry in Asia and the Pacic.

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