onservative in widely popularizing the mechanism, for instance,by limiting the forest area designated for this scheme. InCameroon, for example, CBFM is limited to secondary forests(nonpermanent forests). Under the current forest zoning plan,community forest schemes are allocated only 2% of the total forestestate (Movuh 2013).Among the usual challenges of such community-basedinterventions is the free-riders problem because all the communitymembers may not have equal capacity, interest, and access inmanaging resources. Communities with weak social capital mayalso not be that effective in reaching a collective agreement for acollective action required for effective resources management.