- The Joint Forest Management (JMF) programme furnishes a good example for involving local communities in the management and restoration of degraded forests.
- The programme has been in formal existence since 1988 when the state of Odisha passed the first resolution for joint forest management.
- JMF depends on the formation of local (village) institutions that undertake protection activities mostly on degraded forest land managed by the forest department.
- In return , the members of these communities are entitled to intermediary benefits like non-timber forest produce and share in the timber harvested by ‘successful protection’.
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