Concern Worldwide (2003) regards its national community forestry programme as an integral part of a partnership for development with poor communities. Local people are expected to benefit from forest resources “to meet essential livelihood needs, including food, transportation, tools, and fuel.” The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) similarly sees a double-dividend both in environmental conservation and development from its participatory natural resource management project’s “pioneering work to assist communities to gain responsibility for protection and sustainable management of those resources upon which they depend” in the Tonle Sap region (FAO 2000). The FAO concludes that its project empowers communities to manage local forests to meet their needs for fuelwood and “other products.” Thus, community forestry is expected to provide social and economic benefits for local people and to improve the state of degraded forest land.