Advancing forest-farm producer groups in Myanmar within market-led community forestry: report of an advisory mission

This report is the result of an advisory mission undertaken between April and May 2013 by the author, at the invitation of Pyoe Pin.

The purpose was to advance forest-farm producer groups for a market-led approach to community forestry in Myanmar. This report describes that mission and the main recommendations from it, including to provide support to NGOs to strengthen township level businesses; to arrange independent reviews of key projects relating to a market led approach to community forestry; and to continue to develop pilot programmes with product-specific clusters of well-established forest user groups.