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Relationship with the CBNRM Net portal web site
A fundamental aspect of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is the importance of property rights to local natural resources (regarding the role of CBNRM in CPRNet click here). In general terms, a fundamental premise for successful CBNRM activities is that local people involved in these activities have secure and long-term (if not permanent) use rights to the local resources they utilize. Such rights can be individual or collective, and worldwide today one will, as a rule, find a mixture of property regimes in any given locality.
CPRNet works to increase the understanding of collective rights, or common property rights, and argues that, given the right circumstances, such collective rights are superior to achieving long-term food security as well as sustainable management of natural resources, and thus to achieve a reduction in poverty.
CPRNet's concern with traditional property rights, the emphasis on the coexistence of different property rights regimes, and the importance of this insight for achieving sustainable natural resource management, to a large extent overlaps with the CBNRM agenda. In fact, the codification of traditional property rights is a fundamental premise upon which CBNRM is founded -- and, in turn, furthers. It thus makes a lot of sense for the two networks to collaborate.