Facilitating collective action

CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi). 2010. Facilitating collective action. In Resources, rights, and cooperation: A sourcebook on property rights and collective action for sustainable development, CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi). Strengthening Property Rights and Collective Action, Chapter 8, Pp. 262-264. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154377

Through collective action, forest users, fishers, irrigators, herders, and other rural producers improve and sustain resources vital for their lives. In cases where it has weakened or seems absent, citizens, non-government organizations (NGOs), and government agencies can work to stimulate, strengthen, or sustain collective action.