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 …

Since approval of the revised National Forest Policy in 1998, the legal and policy
environment for forestry in the United Republic of Tanzania has undergone a fundamental …

Recognising the increasing pressure on the forest resource from agricultural expansion,
livestock grazing, fire, woodfuel extraction, and human settlements, the government of …

1. INTRODUCTION anzania has played a leading role in community forest management in
Africa, and indeed globally, over the past twenty years since the passage of the landmark …

The Tanzanian Community-Based Forest Management policy is based on the assumption
that formalized forest tenure by village communities results in increased incentives for …

From the 1980s great hopes have been placed on community forest management to
promote socio-economic development along with forest protection. Empirical research has …

This article provides new insights on community involvement in natural forest management.
The examples used are two woodlands reserves in Tanzania, both of which were visibly not …

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 …

As community involvement in natural forest management expands and matures, the need to
lodge the rights and obligations of both state and community in workable and legally binding …

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