Community forestry has been introduced relatively recently in Cambodia, with the earliest programmes only a decade old. Most may not yield timber benefits from reforestation for at least another decade. The inventory of community forestry activities carried out by the Cambodian
Given the absence of secured common property rights for local people, timber revenues remain hypothetical. Then the question arises as to whether current community forestry programmes in Cambodia may alleviate poverty by providing people with benefits from non-timber forest product