Company-Community Forestry Partnerships: From Raw Deals to Mutual Gains?

In this 2002 paper, the IIED examines 57 examples of company-community forestry partnership in 23 countries. The study focuses on identifying the driving forces for partnerships, the nature of the deals involved, their impacts, and the ways in which they might be improved and spread. The study generated detailed results on deals in six countries, namely South Africa, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Ghana and Canada, and supplemented this with a set of shorter examples of deals from around the world. This is useful reading for companies that are beginning to explore the idea of partnering with communities on forestry issues.