Dear all in IUFRO Division 9,
I came across an interesting report produced under the Swiss-Ukrainian Forest Development Project, and available at the following link:
http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/How%20communities%20manage%2…
I am yet to go through the report, but a glance through it prompted me to focus on the definition of the term 'Community Forestry'. I appreciate the author(s) of the report to attempt at this definition that has in fact inspired me to provide a better(more intimate, concrete, and at the same time relatively all embracing) one. I have started working on the same, and shall let you know once it is done.
I have copied this mail to the English- and Ukranian editors of the said report, Jane Carter and Nataliya Voloshyna. Such a report is very much welcome.
Sorry for cross posting, if any.
Bikash Rath
Coordinator
IUFRO Working Party on Community Forestry
http://www.rcdcindia.org/working-party.htm