Reassuring livelihood functions of the forests to their dependents: Adoption of collaborative forest management system over Joint forest management regime in India
Narendra Kumar Bhatia ,
Mohammad Yousuf
Narendra Kumar Bhatia
Regional Sericultural Research Station, Central Silk Board, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, Sahaspur-248196, Dehradun (Uttrakhand), India. Email: nkb11238594@gmail.com
Mohammad Yousuf
Forest Entomology Division, Forest Research Institute, New Forest - 248006, Dehradun (Uttarakhand), India
Bhatia, N., Yousuf, M.
2013.
Reassuring livelihood functions of the forests to their dependents: Adoption of collaborative forest management system over Joint forest management regime in India.
Annals of Forest Research
56(2): 377-388.
With regard to forest management, rural livelihood, and poverty in India, it is often debated that JFM regime is not delivering livelihood functions of the forests to their dependents. This paper examines the state and scale of two decades old people-centric JFM system of India, and analyses the reasons with their indicators to shade off its shine in reducing povertyamong forest dependent people in several parts of the country. Paper also iscuss, how and to what extent, adoption of a multi-agency linked Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) system could be a better strategy over JFM regime to reassure delivery of livelihood functions of the forests to their dependents in rural India. Arguments in this communication are intended to provide forest managers and policy-makers with necessary input to consider some location specific forest based entrepreneurial activities in CFM mode to provide a continuous source of small income to forest dependent people to ensure long lasting success of their forest management endeavours. Paper concludes with a recommendation to convert unviable JFM areas of India into a multiagency linked CFM system in a phased manner.
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