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View land and resource rights as essential to both income generation and conservation -- Undertake a community resource inventory -- Start with productsm that are already being produced and that have markets -- Capture the value that is added as the product travels through the market system -- Improve the harvesting techniques of existing products in the market -- Keep the strategy simple -- Diversify production and reduce dependence on a single product -- Diversify markets for raw and processed forest products -- Add value locally -- Identify and use appropriate production and processing technology -- Use your business to buy manufactured products in bulk for the community -- Know what you are selling -- Bring other players on board -- Make a decent profit, not a killing -- Don't create or reinforced patron-client relatioships -- Create solutions that are equal to the problems -- Require community investments and, when outside finance is needed, use loans not grants -- Establish ecological marketing systems.