Joint Forest Management often abbreviated as JFM is the official and popular term in India for partnerships in forest movement involving both the state forest departments and local communities. The policies and objectives of Joint Forest Movement are detailed in the Indian comprehensive National Forest Policy of 1988[1][2] and the Joint Forest Management Guidelines of 1990 of the Government of India.[3]
Although schemes vary from state to state and are known by different names in different Indian languages, usually a village committee known as the Forest Protection Committee (FPC) and the Forest Department enter into a JFM agreement. Villagers agree to assist in the safeguarding of forest resources through protection from fire, grazing, and illegal harvesting in exchange for which they receive non-timber forest products and a share of the revenue from the sale of timber products.[4]
- ^ "National Forest Policy, 1988" (PDF). Ministry of Environment, Forests and climate change. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-07-21. Retrieved 2006-09-13.
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- ^ Study on Joint Forest Management Archived 2007-01-11 at the Wayback Machine