1. Community Forestry in Latin
America
Challenges, Progress, and Lessons
Learned

3. Images of Amazonia

4. Many examples of subsistence and
markets oriented forest use

5. The Amazon is a very dynamic place
Amazon population
32,236,580
21,899,099
15,299,703
1980 1990 2005
5

6. On going local forestry
entrepreneurship

7. A study on donor supported and
locally initiated forestry initiatives
50
Donor driven scheme Smallholder scheme
40
number of initiatives
30
20
10
0

8. Good environmental and social
outcomes
Medicilân Brasil
Anapú Pacajá Region
dia Novo
Smallhold Medium – large scale
ers cattle
GNP per capita (2004) (USD)* 4,449 1,979 3,725 478 1,833
Human Development
0.71 0.67 0.65 0.66 0.67
Index (HDI) (2000)
GINI Index (2000)** 0.41 0.46 0.48 0.53 0.44

9. Disappointing success with donor
supported initiatives

10. Comparison of supported and local
initiatives

11. HOW TO BETTER SUPPORT CFM?
THREE IMPORTANT LESSONS

12. Better use existing experiences and local
innovations as a starting base

13. Eliminate constraints to local
experimentation and entrepreneurship

14. Let local values guide CFM support initiatives

15. Thank You