Villagers in northeast Cambodia is a similar problem. The initiation of participatory forms of development planning in the Seila context has provided significant gains for local livelihoods and natural resources management. However, these gains have been overtaken by the attributable to local people is tenure insecurity. The national government claims forest as it is own, regardless of centuries of use by indigenous populations (the government recognizes fallow land is deserted land) and it sells forest and fallows land is concessions to private companies. If decentralization is to form strategy for rural poverty alleviation as government in this region claim, Communities must receive some degree of greater access to productive resources their basic subsistence.