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[Title] Working Toward Cooperative Non-timber Forest Product (NTFP) Management: Integrating Economic, Institutional and Ecological Analysis to Balance Community Livelihoods and Forest Conservation in Western Amazonia [Location] Brazil [Description] 
This analysis of more than 15 years of retrospective socioeconomic data and frequent visits to three different community types in the Amazon examines whether putting resource management decision-making in the hands of indigenous and community groups improves livelihoods and biodiversity outcomes. Among the paper’s primary conclusions: communities that manage their forests collectively are more effective in preventing deforestation on their land and improving economic returns of forest products than private landowners.
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