For a week in July 2007, the Brazilian city of Rio Branco, in the heart
of the Amazon, became the community forestry capital of the world.
Participants from 40 countries came together to explore the emerging
phenomenon of community-based forest enterprises (CFEs)—dynamic, smallscale
businesses that are starting to tap the huge wealth of entrepreneurial talent
that exists in forest-dwelling Indigenous and local communities.
Tropical Forest Update

Issue 17 No 4
Tapping the potential of communities
A rubber-tapper in the Antimary State Forest, Acre, Brazil.
Photo: R. Guevara/ITTO
Contents
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Background to the conference
Photo: A. Martin
- Key themes discussed
- Contributions and constraints
- Social organization
- Economics of the community forest timber enterprise
- Economics of non-timber forest products and services
- Tenure, access rights and regulatory frameworks
- Key barriers, constraints and solutions
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Day Two: Monday 16 July
Photo: Chris Aldridge
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Day Three and Four
Tue 17 July, Wed 18 JulyPhotos: A. Martin
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Day Five Thursday 19 July
Photo: A. Sarre
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The Rio Branco Declaration
Photo: A. Sarre
Statement issued by the International Conference of Community Forest Management and
Community Forest Enterprises
Rio Branco
Acre, Brazil
20 July 2007

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