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Overhead Notes on Readings:  Social Forestry  and Saving Forests

1.  Lurie, Theadora.  1999.  Saving Forests, Healing Towns.  Ford Foundation Report (Fall): 12-15.
2.  Shiva, Vandana, H.C. Sharatchandra, and J. Bandyopadhyay.  1986.  Social Forestry for Whom?  In David
     Korten (ed.) Community Management: Asian Experience and Perspectives.  West Hartford, CN: Kumarian
     Press. pp. 238-246.

Some key point from the articles (additional ones were brought up in class):

KARNATAKA, INDIA  1980
History:  of degradation – lays out needs well
Forests:  a way they stayed alive
Stage:  early stages of institutionalization – after grassroots efforts
Focus:  just tree-planting, it appears
Participation:  where is community?  top down, no clear mechanism for local input (if so maybe different tree spp.)
Critique:  started at early stages of govt institutionalization (common in Asian literature)
Facilitating institutions/ role of outsiders: government, World Bank
A Key Point: Why community forestry? – not just private forestry à hurt people and forests
(Common property theory - mentioned)

HAYFORK, CA  1999
History: of conflict and degradation
Forests:  a way they made a living
Stage:  grassroots start-up – but check date 1999 long after Indian and many Asia cf progs
Focus:  capacity-building and bureaucratic reorientation
Participation:  via a local non-profit.  Inclusive?
Promotional – early stages, personality driven, written up by funder
Facilitating institutions/ role of outsiders:   role of NGOs, Ford Fdn
Key Points:  1)  Small business model reliant on public forests for social good,
2)  community forestry as a movement