Can community-based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on Sabah Forest reserve? a case study from Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve

Decades of forest management has shown that Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) is the key viability. In such management, the local community is involved in the planning, site-preparation, monitoring, decision-making, and benefit-sharing. Although this seems to be a practical and respectful met...

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Main Author: Hardawati Yahya
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34561/1/Abstract.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34561/2/Full%20text.pdf
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description Decades of forest management has shown that Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) is the key viability. In such management, the local community is involved in the planning, site-preparation, monitoring, decision-making, and benefit-sharing. Although this seems to be a practical and respectful method for forest management, some problematic issues still arise. One of the much-debated subjects include the contribution of CBFM to household income and land encroachment. Hence, this study aims to provide an in-depth discussion of this matter where part of the study’s goals is to determine whether CBFM contributes to household income. In addition, the current case study also seeks to evaluate the household perception on land encroachment in Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve. A mixed methodology based on the triangulation method was employed in this research, including household surveys, face-to-face interviews, and observations of the forest and farmland. The respondents were a random selection of 174 households. Overall, the findings demonstrated that households in Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve have benefited from CBFM through labour wage and the sale of non-wood forest products. It was also discovered that perceptions on land encroachment differ according to the household’s interest and need of the land. Based on the thorough analysis of the data, the local community generally has generally gained considerable benefits from CBFM. Nonetheless, other land issues on land should be acknowledged in future studies to optimise CBFM.
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spelling ums.eprints-345612022-10-31T02:37:26Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34561/ Can community-based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on Sabah Forest reserve? a case study from Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve Hardawati Yahya SD1-669.5 Forestry Decades of forest management has shown that Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) is the key viability. In such management, the local community is involved in the planning, site-preparation, monitoring, decision-making, and benefit-sharing. Although this seems to be a practical and respectful method for forest management, some problematic issues still arise. One of the much-debated subjects include the contribution of CBFM to household income and land encroachment. Hence, this study aims to provide an in-depth discussion of this matter where part of the study’s goals is to determine whether CBFM contributes to household income. In addition, the current case study also seeks to evaluate the household perception on land encroachment in Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve. A mixed methodology based on the triangulation method was employed in this research, including household surveys, face-to-face interviews, and observations of the forest and farmland. The respondents were a random selection of 174 households. Overall, the findings demonstrated that households in Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve have benefited from CBFM through labour wage and the sale of non-wood forest products. It was also discovered that perceptions on land encroachment differ according to the household’s interest and need of the land. Based on the thorough analysis of the data, the local community generally has generally gained considerable benefits from CBFM. Nonetheless, other land issues on land should be acknowledged in future studies to optimise CBFM. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34561/1/Abstract.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34561/2/Full%20text.pdf Hardawati Yahya (2019) Can community-based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on Sabah Forest reserve? a case study from Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve. In: 12th Seminar on Science and Technology, 2 - 3 October 2018, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1358/1/012033
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Can community-based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on Sabah Forest reserve? a case study from Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve
title Can community-based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on Sabah Forest reserve? a case study from Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve
title_full Can community-based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on Sabah Forest reserve? a case study from Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve
title_fullStr Can community-based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on Sabah Forest reserve? a case study from Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve
title_full_unstemmed Can community-based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on Sabah Forest reserve? a case study from Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve
title_short Can community-based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on Sabah Forest reserve? a case study from Mangkuwagu Forest Reserve
title_sort can community based forest management contribute to household income and mitigate land encroachment on sabah forest reserve a case study from mangkuwagu forest reserve
topic SD1-669.5 Forestry
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