scholarly journals Getting ready for REDD+ in Tanzania: a case study of progress and challenges

Oryx ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil D. Burgess ◽  
Bruno Bahane ◽  
Tim Clairs ◽  
Finn Danielsen ◽  
Søren Dalsgaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
National Forest Inventory ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Donor Support ◽  
Management Approaches

AbstractThe proposed mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) offers significant potential for conserving forests to reduce negative impacts of climate change. Tanzania is one of nine pilot countries for the United Nations REDD Programme, receives significant funding from the Norwegian, Finnish and German governments and is a participant in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. In combination, these interventions aim to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, provide an income to rural communities and conserve biodiversity. The establishment of the UN-REDD Programme in Tanzania illustrates real-world challenges in a developing country. These include currently inadequate baseline forestry data sets (needed to calculate reference emission levels), inadequate government capacity and insufficient experience of implementing REDD+-type measures at operational levels. Additionally, for REDD+ to succeed, current users of forest resources must adopt new practices, including the equitable sharing of benefits that accrue from REDD+ implementation. These challenges are being addressed by combined donor support to implement a national forest inventory, remote sensing of forest cover, enhanced capacity for measuring, reporting and verification, and pilot projects to test REDD+ implementation linked to the existing Participatory Forest Management Programme. Our conclusion is that even in a country with considerable donor support, progressive forest policies, laws and regulations, an extensive network of managed forests and increasingly developed locally-based forest management approaches, implementing REDD+ presents many challenges. These are being met by coordinated, genuine partnerships between government, non-government and community-based agencies.

scholarly journals Are policies for decentralised forest governance designed to achieve full devolution? Evidence from Eastern Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
K. Magessa ◽  
S. Wynne-Jones ◽  
N. Hockley
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Forest Reserve ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Management Approaches

Decentralised forest management approaches are ostensibly designed to increase community involvement in forest management, yet have had mixed success in practice. We present a comparative study across multiple countries in Eastern Africa of how far decentralised forest policies are designed to achieve devolution. We adopt the decentralisation framework developed by Agrawal and Ribot to explore whether, and how, devolution is specified in Tanzanian, Kenyan, Ugandan, Malawian and Ethiopian forest policies. We also compare them to the commitments of the Rio Declaration. In all five countries, the policies lack at least some of the critical elements required to achieve meaningful devolution, such as democratically elected, downwardly accountable local actors and equitable benefit sharing. Calling an approach 'community' or 'participatory', does not mean that it involves all residents: in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia, policies allow a small group of people in the community to manage the forest reserve, potentially excluding marginalised groups, and hence limiting devolution. This may lead to elite capture, and effective privatisation of forests, enclosing previously de facto common pool resources. Therefore, even without flaws in implementation, these decentralisation policies are unlikely to achieve true devolution in the study countries.

scholarly journals The Developmental Experience of Forest-Dependent Communities in Developing Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lissel Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Forest Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework ◽  
Forestry Management ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Private Forest Management

Forest management is a key element for sustained community development and climate change mitigation, especially in developing countries. This research sets out to test the hypothesis that community-based management of forests generates more community development benefits and higher forest sustainability levels than state or private sector forest management approaches. This presentation provides background on the crisis of forestry and the potential of communitybased natural resource management (CBNRM). It discusses the different forestry management approaches and presents the results of the analysis of the outcomes identified in different cases of forest management using the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF). Limitations on the quality and homogeneity of the information provided by the literature reviewed did not support definitive conclusions. However, the cases analyzed suggest that community forest management might create more community development benefits and higher forest sustainability than state and private forest management. The implications for rural Ontario are the potential of CBNRM, the pertinence of the SLF and the need to have homogeneous and comparable indicators when analyzing developmental and sustainability outcomes in rural communities.

scholarly journals Forest Policies and Forest Fringe Households’ Resilience against Poverty in Participatory Forest Management Sites in Burkina Faso

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Boukary Ouedraogo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Income Sources ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Forest Fringe

This paper uses an original dataset that was built upon extensive surveys covering 300 forest fringe households on the main participatory forest management (PFM) sites in Burkina Faso. We then combine simultaneously the seminal approach of Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (1984) monetary poverty indices and the Béné’s (2013) approach of resilience on costs (expenditures) analysis, so as to emphasize forests fringe households’ resilience against poverty mainly by capturing the induced changes by the 1998 forest policy, in these households’ abilities to cope with poverty. The major outcomes are: (i) forest income sources remain the most dominant in households’ total income for 1997 and 2004; (ii) both poverty rate and poverty gap decrease from 1997 to 2004. This decline in the level of poverty is mainly explained by the households’ coping strategies through the development of investments and others expenditures (agricultural equipment, livestock, poultry, trade, crafts activities and processing of NTFPs) so that to cope with poverty; (iii) forest fringe households are resilient against poverty in PFM sites. The main environmental policy implication of this study should be to update the levels of the instruments of the environmental policy (forest), twenty years after the implementation of the 1998 forest policy so that to reinforce forest households’ resilience and forest sustainability. 

scholarly journals Participatory forestry improves mangrove forest management in Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
A. Kairu ◽  
K. Kotut ◽  
R. Mbeche ◽  
J. Kairo
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Mangrove Forest ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Tropical Forest Management ◽  
Western Block ◽  
Participatory Forestry

Participatory forestry has been recognized as a tool for improving tropical forest management. The current study assessed the impacts of participatory forest management (PFM) on the structure and regeneration of a mangrove forest at Gazi Bay, Kenya. Data were collected along belt transects perpendicular to the waterline in both co-managed and state-managed mangrove forests. Basal area and standing density were significantly higher in the co-managed mangrove forests (16 m2/ha and 4 341 tree/ha) as compared to the state forests (eastern block 10.3 m2/ha and 2 673 trees/ha; western block 6.2 m2/ha and 2 436 trees/ha). There were significantly higher (p = 0.0068) densities of merchantable poles in community-managed as compared to state-managed forests. Natural regeneration patterns in community-managed and state-managed forests were deemed adequate to support the recovery of both forests. The results demonstrate that community participation contributes to improved management of mangrove forests and is in agreement with the principles of sustainable forest management.

scholarly journals Participatory Forest Management Tool for Promoting Sustainable Forest Utilization in Chiradzulu, Malawi

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Margaret Kunje ◽  
Edward Missanjo
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Decline ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
The Past

A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess community perceptions towards environmental issues and Participatory Forest Management (PFM) in Chiradzulu, Malawi. The study revealed that majority (94%) of the households are aware that the forest cover has declined in the past two decade and recognised this as a major environmental problem. Firewood the main source of energy, poverty, as well as population growth were identified as the major cause of the forest decline. However, the study revealed that PFM is one of the helpful tools in overcoming this challenge. Most (66%) of the households acknowledged that PFM is partially meeting community’s basic needs and interests. The basic needs that were observed included firewood, food, water, shelter, knowledge, skills, and income. This indicate that if PFM is implemented effectively, it would lead to sustainable management of forest resources. Therefore, the present study recommends that for sustainability of forest management to be achieved in the study area, communities should be fully empowered to make sound decisions for continued benefits for the entire community.

Examining the effect of diverse management strategies on landscape scale patterns of forest structure in Pennsylvania using novel remote sensing techniques

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvette Dickinson ◽  
Eric K. Zenner ◽  
Douglas Miller
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Structure ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Remote Sensing Techniques ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Structure Patterns

We used novel remote sensing techniques to compare the landscape-scale patterns of forest structure in Pennsylvania, USA under the management of four different agencies with varying primary objectives, including production forestry, wildlife habitat, recreation, and private ownership. We (i) developed a forest structure classification scheme using publicly available LiDAR and orthographic aerial imagery data, (ii) mapped the forest structure across twenty forested landscapes, and (iii) compared the landscape-scale forest structure patterns among the four forest management types. Our results indicate that different management philosophies and their associated forest management approaches have resulted in contrasting landscape-scale patterns of forest structure. Privately managed forests had shorter forests, higher densities of distinct patches, higher interspersion of patch types, and higher forest structure diversity at fine-scales (1.5 ha grain size) compared to forests lightly managed for recreation. Production forests under ecosystem management and forests managed for wildlife habitat exhibited intermediate patterns of forest structure. This variation in forest structure patterns among the forest managers is likely to have implications for wildlife habitat and other ecosystem services. Furthermore, greater emphasis is needed on encouraging private landowners to manage across property boundaries and providing the resources and tools to manage forests at the landscape scale.

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