14 Community Forests housing sustainable resin ventures

18 Jun 2022
14 Community Forests housing sustainable resin ventures

Generating revenue from resin tapping is important to achieving the project’s long term sustainable development goals and has the potential to contribute substantially to livelihood improvement of the Community Forest (CF) members. Each CF member owns between 70 and 3,000 resin trees, with the average number of ownership being 600 resin trees per household. The project’s long-term strategy is to keep these resin trees standing and to help provide alternative income streams to the community through market links, reducing pressure on forest resources.