APA 6th ed. Balancing Rights and Roles of Local Community: The Way Forward for Sustainable Management of Forest Resources. (2016, January 1). Retrieved from https://voices4mekongforests.org/publications/0000084
MLA 8th ed. Balancing Rights and Roles of Local Community: The Way Forward for Sustainable Management of Forest Resources. RECOFTC, 1 January 2016, https://voices4mekongforests.org/publications/0000084.
Chicago 17th ed. RECOFTC. 2016. "Balancing Rights and Roles of Local Community: The Way Forward for Sustainable Management of Forest Resources." Published January 1, 2016. https://voices4mekongforests.org/publications/0000084.
Balancing Rights and Roles of Local Community: The Way Forward for Sustainable Management of Forest Resources
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Local communities and state forest actors, such as Protection Forest Management Boards (PFMBs), State Forest Companies (SFCs), play equally important roles in forest resource management. Yet local communities have limited legal rights. This is one reason that leads to a lack of forest ownership for local communities. In order to support local communities to effectively engage in sustainable forest management and livelihood development, a fuller set of rights should be legally given to them.