Worldwide, community forests are an indispensable socio-economic and cultural backbone of rural societies widely facing severe challenges due to bad living conditions, climate change, urbanisation and migration. In the course of land redistributions to black society after the Apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994, community forests and their management play an important role also in South Africa. However, many communities lack the knowledge of how to manage these forests sustainably under conditions of a changing climate. As a result, land is often leased to large forestry companies again creating dependencies for the individual communities.
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