Forestry for local community development
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For centuries, individuals and communities have been able to live in harmony with their environment, but during the past decades the rapid growth of populations and the higher expectations which have been generated throughout the world have led to an increase in the use of forests to such an extent that forests in many places have become degraded if they have not been razed to the ground. Moreover, the forest dweller’s life has, in many places, become one of misery. Industrial exploitation, whil e sometimes contributing to national and regional economies, has not benefited the rural poor and has often even led to the impoverishment of agricultural soils that are dependent on the protective value of the forests.