Unpacking the impacts of ‘participatory’ forestry policies: Evidence from Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Mutheu Mutune ◽  
Jens Friis Lund
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Forestry ◽  
Forestry Policies

scholarly journals From Protection to Poverty Reduction: A Review of Forestry Policies and Practices in Nepal

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram B. Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Local People ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Forestry Sector ◽  
Participatory Forestry ◽  
Forestry Policies ◽  
Democratic Principles

This paper examines the evolution of the policy and legislation in Nepal's forestry sector. The analysis reveals that there is a congenial environment for participatory forestry to contribute to the goal of poverty reduction in the country. While forestry in Nepal has mostly benefited the state authorities and the elite and did not give much consideration to the needs of the poor in the past, the policy and legislation in the country from the 1970s has evolved from being restrictive for public use, alienating the local people from the resources, to being open for improved utilization, increased participation of people and stakeholders, ensuring benefits to the local users, and regarding forestry as a potential vehicle for poverty reduction. The paper concludes that participatory forestry also stands out as a good example of Nepal's commitment towards decentralization and democratic principles. Keywords: poverty reduction, forest policy, forestry sector, participatory forestry doi: 10.3126/jfl.v5i1.1982 Journal of Forest and Livelihood 5(1) February, 2006 pp.66-77

scholarly journals Strategies for the Management of Traditional Chestnut Landscapes in Pesio Valley, Italy: A Participatory Approach

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 536
Author(s):  
Paola Gullino ◽  
Maria Mellano ◽  
Gabriele Beccaro ◽  
Marco Devecchi ◽  
Federica Larcher
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Forestry Policies

Through an exploratory case study conducted in the Pesio Valley, northwest Italy, this paper proposes a framework for maintaining traditional chestnut production landscapes and addressing future development policies. The main goal was to understand how to promote a bottom-up planning approach, including stakeholder perceptions in traditional chestnut landscape management. To ensure the sustainability of the landscape, current driving forces and their landscape effects were identified by local stakeholders using a focus group technique. Population ageing, local forestry policies directed towards supporting chestnut growers’ income, social and economic needs, and land fragmentation are the main driving forces that will influence future chestnut landscapes. The focus group participants built two scenarios of possible future development of the chestnut landscape, one characterized by the disappearance and transformation of chestnut stands, the other by their permanence and maintenance. The most recommended strategies for maintaining traditional chestnut cultivation were chestnut processing, fruit designation of origin, and the cultivation of traditional varieties. This study shows that, to preserve the traditional chestnut landscape, the participation of multiple stakeholders is a useful approach in landscape planning. This methodology could guide decision-makers and planners who desire to implement a participatory approach to a sustainable development program for traditional chestnut landscapes.

scholarly journals Implementation of Forest Conservation Policies based on Local Wisdom of the Ammatoa Kajang Indigenous Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 940 (1) ◽  
pp. 012082
Author(s):  
S Megawati ◽  
M A Mahdiannur
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Cultural Authenticity ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Monitoring Tools ◽  
Forestry Policies ◽  
And Control

Abstract The Ammatoa Kajang indigenous community maintain cultural authenticity from generation to generation, especially in protecting and preserving customary forests from the threat of damage. This research aims to describe the implementation of forest conservation policies based on local wisdom of the Ammatoa Kajang indigenous community. The research method uses a literature/library study approach. Reference documents from 2001-2021. Data analysis methods with data minimization, data visualization, data analysis, and data validation and concluding. The results of the research showed that the Kajang orthodox community in day-to-day forest management is guided by the Pasang ri Kajang, which contains rules, implementation and sanctions for all forms of forest utilization and management, monitoring tools and control over all activities related to forestry, positively correlated with forestry policies governance. The concept of customary forest management is to divide the forest into three areas with certain specifications and rules as well as prohibited from destroying flora and fauna. In the end, the forest is sustainable and indigenous community behave sustainably; it can be concluded that the implementation of forest conservation policies based on local wisdom of the Ammatoa Kajang indigenous community is going well.

scholarly journals Mining, Waste and Environmental Thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iva Peša
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Central African Copperbelt ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environmental Histories ◽  
Forestry Policies

Since the early twentieth century, the copper-mining industry on the Zambian and Congolese Copperbelt has moved millions of tonnes of earth and dramatically reshaped the landscape. Nonetheless, mining companies, governments and even residents largely overlooked the adverse environmental aspects of mining until the early 1990s. By scrutinising environmental knowledge production on the Central African Copperbelt from the 1950s until the late 1990s, particularly regarding notions of ‘waste’, this article problematises the silencing of the environmental impacts of mining. To make the environmental history of the Copperbelt visible, this article examines forestry policies, medical services and environmental protests. Moreover, by historically tracing the emergence of environmental consciousness, it contextualises the sudden ‘discovery’ of pollution in the 1990s as a local and (inter)national phenomenon. Drawing on rare archival and oral history sources, it provides one of the first cross-border environmental histories of the Central African Copperbelt.

scholarly journals International Market Leakage from China’s Forestry Policies

Forests ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 2613-2625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Hu ◽  
Guoqing Shi ◽  
Donald Hodges
Keyword(s):  
International Market ◽  
Forestry Policies

scholarly journals Loading Capacity of Sewage Sludge for Forestry Application in Chinese Provincial Capital Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7551
Author(s):  
Xiaoxia Zhang ◽  
Tonggang Zha ◽  
Jiangang Zhu ◽  
Xiaoping Guo ◽  
Yi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Loading Capacity ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Control Threshold ◽  
Provincial Capital ◽  
Forestry Policies

The application of sewage sludge (SS) in forestry is considered a viable option. However, the long-term application of SS potentially leads to metal accumulation, posing an environmental risk. Understanding the loading capacity of SS for forestry application is therefore of great significance. We used data from published studies and statistical bulletins across 31 provincial capital cities (PCCs) in China to calculate the loading capacity (LC) of SS for forestry application for each PCC. The results are as follows: (1) the mean value of the priority control threshold was 33 t·ha−1·y−1 in 31 PCCs, while the variations ranged from 7 to 91 t·ha−1·y−1 among different PCCs. The priority control thresholds (Smins) of 1/2 PCCs were higher than 30 t·ha−1·y−1 (CJ-T 362-2011). The Smin values of Lanzhou, Tianjin, Hohhot, Shanghai, and Yinchuan were above 55 t·ha−1·y−1, but Smin values of Kunming and Changsha were below 10 t·ha−1·y−1. (2) Cd was the priority control metal in most of the PCCs (27/31), with the exception of Shanghai and Guangzhou (Cu), Beijing (Hg), and Tianjin (Zn). (3) The total loading capacity was 507 million t·y−1, which was 125 times higher than the total quantity of the dry SS (404 × 104 t) for the 31 PCCs. Our results have important practical significance for the use of urban sludge forest land in China and suggest that SS disposal policies need to be tailored to specific regions. We provide a scientific basis to guide the development of national and provincial forestry policies.

Promoting Aboriginal Territoriality Through Interethnic Alliances: The Case of the Cheslatta T'en in Northern British Columbia

2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soren C. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
Forestry Policies

Across rural North America, aboriginal and nonaboriginal people have formed strategic alliances to defend what are perceived to be common resources and attachments to place. Thus far, little is known about how these partnerships have factored into indigenous pursuits of territorial autonomy. This article describes how the Cheslatta T'en, a Dakelh (Carrier) community in north-central British Columbia, established a measure of control over their homeland after forming an alliance with local nonnative residents. Cheslatta leaders used cultural exchanges and social networks generated by the alliance to fashion territorial initiatives that, when taken together, channel popular environmentalism, provincial forestry policies, and ancestral ethnoecology into collective identity, action, and authority. As a result, the band has attained political influence over its traditional lands without participating in the province's treaty settlement process. Interethnic partnerships in rural areas are particularly relevant to political ecology because they reveal how the common experience of powerlessness can generate new forms of resource management that synthesize diverse constructions of nature. In this way, the paper contributes to the growing empirical work on such alliances and to emerging frameworks for a political ecology of social movements. It also adds to the ethnographic literature on the colonial encounter in British Columbia by highlighting the role of interethnic collaboration in contemporary rural resource management projects.

scholarly journals Has China’s New Round of Collective Forestland Tenure Reform Caused an Increase in Rural Labor Transfer?

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Liu Yang ◽  
Yang Ren
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Rural Labor ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Agricultural Employment ◽  
Force Increase ◽  
Labor Transfer ◽  
Forestry Policies ◽  
Binary Probit

To investigate the rural labor transfer effects of China’s Collective Forestland Tenure Reform (CFTR), we employ binary probit models by using survey data of 694 households from China’s northern collective forest areas. The results reveal that the improved property rights, including rights for forestland use, disposition and beneficiaries, and refined tenure security under the CFTR generally have caused an increase in rural household labor transfer to the nonfarm sector. Besides, we find that forestry-dominated households’ risk perceptions on forestland reallocation and expropriation have significantly dampened rural labor transfer to the nonfarm sector. These can be explained by the fact that the strengthening of forestland property rights brought about by the CFTR can promote an increase in the forestland transfer rate and improve the forestland relocation efficiency. This, in turn, will lead to the liberation of the rural labor force, increase the non-agricultural employment rate of farmers, and ultimately lead to an increase in the rural labor transfer to the nonfarm sector. Therefore, these findings indicate that to motivate rural labor transfer to the nonfarm sector in the context of the Chinese government’s call for urbanization and other developing countries’ handling of similar circumstances, policymakers should further refine household forestland property rights and better protect forestland tenure security by continuing to improve related forestry policies.

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