Challenges for Community-Based Forest Management in the KoloAla Site Manompana |
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Authors: | Zora Lea Urech Jean-Pierre Sorg Hans Rudolph Felber |
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Institution: | 1. ETH Zurich-USYS, Zurich, Switzerland 2. ETH Zurich, NADEL, Zurich, Switzerland
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Abstract: | Following the IUCN 5th World Congress on Protected Areas in 2003, the then-President of Madagascar decided to increase the area of Madagascar’s protected areas from 1.7 to 6 million ha. To combine the aims of protection and timber production, a new concept was developed through the establishment of community-based forest management (CBFM) sites, called KoloAla. However, experience shows that similar management transfers to communities in Madagascar have only been successful in a very few cases. We aimed to explore the success to be expected of this new approach in the particular case of the Manompana corridor at Madagascar’s eastern coast. In a first step, the readiness of the corridor’s resource users for CBFM has been analysed according to the seven resource users’ attributes developed by Ostrom that predict an effective self-organized resource management. In a second step, we explored how KoloAla addresses known challenges of Madagascar’s CBFM. Analyses lead in a rather sober conclusion. Although KoloAla attempts to address the goals of poverty alleviation, biodiversity conservation and timber production under a single umbrella, it does so in a rather non-innovative way. Challenges with regard to the state’s environmental governance, agricultural inefficiency and thus deforestation remain unsolved. |
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