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Logs from a community forest in Oaxaca, Mexico. Credit: Reem Hajjar, OSU College of Forestry
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The most comprehensive global analysis of community forestry ever undertaken shows that government policies formalizing local residents' land access and resource rights often backfire by resulting in less access and weakened rights. Led by Oregon State University and the University of Manchester, the research is important because community forest management is promoted as a means of melding conservation and economic development...

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