This article deals with participatory forest management (PFM) in Tanzania, Mozambique,
and Laos, focusing on the degree to which the legislation supports local communities' …

Although participatory forest management (PFM) has attracted increasingly positive attention
and its importance is clearly accepted among practitioners, pilot projects are experiencing …

Worldwide, approaches to involving people in forest management have multiplied over the
past two decades. Adopting a range of names and strategies, and variously called …

The paper provides an overview of experiences in Tanzania to date in scaling up
Participatory Forest Management (PFM) from what has until recently been a project-driven …

Before the 1980s, centralized forest policies in many African countries excluded local
communities, while forest resources were frequently degraded. In response, Participatory …

The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of where and how local involvement in
forest management is occurring at this time in Africa and to identify trends and constraints …

In this paper, we show how the framing of a community-based forest management (CBFM)
intervention implies the professionalization of forest management and the privileging of …

Tanzania was one of the first countries on the African continent to formally recognise the role
of communities in managing and owning forests. A number of pilot activities implemented in …

Although communities have been living within forests and dependent on forest resources, in
Mozambique, their role was not formally recognized until the late 1990s. The forest law of …

In many countries including Uganda, management of forest resources has moved away from
command and control system to a more participatory approach that require involvement of a …