The Contesting Aspirations in the Forests

That community forestry is yet to meet its high promises on tackling forest degradation and the pervasive rural poverty cannot be separated from the contexts of political processes and the dynamic of social interactions among the stakeholders involved in the program. This book analyses how few external stakeholders, with the use of different power features, influence the processes and try to skew the outcomes of the community forestry to their directions. The direct forest users, which are supposedly the core stakeholder in the community forestry, remain powerless and endure extensive influence from the powerful external ones.