ForInfo Factsheet: Seima Community-Based Production Forestry
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Date of publication
November 2013
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recoftc:60
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Copyright © RECOFTC December 2013
In what is a big step towards commercial community forestry, Cambodia’s Forest Administration, in partnership with RECOFTC and with technical assistance and funding from the Wildlife Conservation Society, began pilot testing in 2008 community-based production forestry in the Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area. It is an innovation unlike any other in the region in which communities are allowed to set up forest-logging operations in buffer-zone forest. The goal is to create a model for the legal trade of responsible forest products that will restrict encroachment and conversion while improving livelihoods and reducing poverty among the people living near the forest.
