In last two decades, the forest and its resources have been unsustainably exploited to almost non regenerative capacity, thus compromising the socio economic status millions of people around the globe. It was therefore against this background that the United Nations developed a long lasting strategy to contain further ecological degradation by introducing participatory management approaches where governments and forests communities played a critical role in the restoration process. While increased forests cover remained a primary objective in this initiative, the livelihood component needed a serious economic analysis to reduce the pressure on the existing ones.
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