YFF Review
The YFF Review is a publicly available output of the YFF Speaker Series, where we summarize key learnings and applicable examples on the series’ topic. These documents are created by the Yale Forest Forum team and include speaker summaries written by Yale School of the Environment masters and doctoral students.
The Promise and Practice of Community-Based Forestry
February 1, 2021The Yale Forest Forum (YFF) has been engaging people with the most important issues in forestry since 1994. In the spring of 2021, YFF brought together more than 1,000 registered attendees from all around the world to hear from eleven leaders and experts in community-based forestry (CBF). Communities increasing loss of rights to forest access and use has spurred interest in understanding and expanding the model of CBF. This season’s YFF speakers gave many examples of how colonial land seizure, state appropriation of forests, and industrial forestry have all been implicated in wresting control of forests away from local people over the past century, and how CBF can correct those wrongs.