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Undertaken in 1986, this field-based case study examined employment
and income aspects of a SIDA-assisted social forestry project in Orissa.
These dimensions of Indian social forestry had received little detailed
attention up to then. While the information presented is largely qualitative,
it includes interesting (albeit brief) case histories, as well as
extracts from interviews with diverse stakeholders (women, Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Forest Officials, etc.). Some quantitative
data on the amount and distribution of employment by type of work
and gender are also presented. The study clearly illustrates the complex,
site-specific factors which determined the extent of participation
in the project by its primary target groups (i.e. the poorest and
most disadvantaged sections of local society) and thus the benefits
they derived from it. Limitations of project design which constrained
the realisation of more sustainable benefits to target groups are
identified. A key factor affecting local participation in certain
schemes was uncertainty about tenure over land and over forest resources
developed with project assistance.
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