Negotiating Land Rights And Natural Resource Regulations For Local People

This project investigates the role and effectiveness of farmer and community groups in negotiating land rights and resource regulations in the upland watersheds of Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. This project helps enhance understanding of the development or function of farmer or community organizations in influencing natural resource management at a watershed scale as resources become more scarce. The project also offers an opportunity to demystify how the interactions of local and state institutions are changing under devolution, under the diverse political, economic and cultural conditions prevailing in the uplands of Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Notably, this project is centred at the intersection of collective action and property rights issues. Collective action is being used to change property rights, and property rights are earned through demonstration of effective collective action in natural resource management. Funding: CAPRi, ICRAF, IFAD. Region: Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia. (Project leader: Chip Fay).