Efforts to promote popular participation in forest management in Sub-Saharan Africa have
faced many obstacles and disappointments. Although promises of improvements in relation …

Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) is being proclaimed as “a
new direction in forest conservation”(Anglesen, 2009: 125). This financial incentives-based …

Provides a pan-African synthesis of community-based natural resource management
(CBNRM), drawing on multiple authors and a wide range of documented experiences from …

The paper examines how forest decentralization affects forest management and sustainable
livelihoods in East Africa. For this review, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania were …

Over the past 15 years the Tanzanian government has promoted participatory forest
management (both joint forest management and community-based forest management) as a …

The forest resources in Ethiopia have suffered decades of mismanagement due mainly to
loosely defined property relations over these resources. As one of the solutions …

Research on community-based forest management indicates its conservation outcomes
depend on local rule enforcement, extraction pressures, and community support. However …

Land‐use and cover changes around Budongo Forest Reserve (BFR) were analysed from
multi‐temporal LandSat images (1988 and 2002) and associated field‐based studies in …

Miombo woodlands make up a significant proportional of total forested land in Tanzania,
and most of it it is in general lands. The main concentrations of this formation are found in …

We examined how differences in local forest‐management institutions relate to disparate
anthropogenic forest disturbance and forest conditions among three neighboring montane …