A local farmer (left) and a project officer stand in a patch of restored forest in farmland in the Guaviare region, Colombia. Families in the area are pursuing various tree-based land-use options as a result of an ITTO project.
Photo: C.M. Carneiro
Evidence is growing that local communities can be excellent managers of forests—to the extent that policies on land tenure, markets and other factors allow. In this edition of the TFU, two articles describe the outcomes of four ITTO projects where the focus was on building the capacity of communities to restore their lands and sustainably manage their forests and on creating the enabling conditions for them to do so.