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This case study examines eight equity dimensions in sustainable forest management through the case study of Na Ot Village, Na Ot Commune, Mai Son District, Son La province in Viet Nam.
It highlights that securing forest tenure and resource rights is a critical cornerstone and a first prerequisite for promoting community forestry through mobilising local communities to manage and benefit from forest sustainably, to participate in the democratic decision-making process, and establish their own customary practices of forest management in Viet Nam.
It argues that giving forest tenure to local community should take a customary community forestry law in the area into account, thereby retaining the flexibility and capacity to adapt that often gives these systems their power.
Transferring tenure rights and management responsibilities to local communities should be not seen as simply allowing communities increased access to the forest resource, but as a process of power sharing and capacity building.
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