Collective action and property rights for sustainable development: property rights, collective action, and agroforestry
Agroforestry is about integrated agricultural systems inwhich trees play a prominent role.Agroforestry canprovide a variety of functions or benefits for farmers andcommunities.The most easily identifiable are the tree productsconsumed by humans: fuelwood, timber, poles, fruits, medicines,and resins.A second group of benefits consists of the servicesprovided by trees to other agricultural activities of the farmer:fodder, green manure, shade, soil conservation, and stakes.Athird group includes the communitywide or even global benefitsfrom agroforestry systems: biodiversity, watershed protection,carbon sequestration, and microclimate regulation. In this brief,we explore the role that social institutions—specificallyproperty rights and collective action—may play in the developmentof agroforestry.
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Publication year
2022
