This paper examines how and for what reasons rural residents come to care about the
environment. Focusing on Kumaon, India, it explores the deep and durable relationship …

Political responses to global deforestation, as a defining characteristic of the so-called
Anthropocene, are a key field for scholarship and policy analysis. In the past decade …

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 …

The Miombo, the most extensive tropical woodland formation of Africa directly supports the
livelihoods of over 100 million people through the provision of many tree products and …

Joint Forest Management (JFM), embracing the philosophy of forest conservation and
livelihood improvement through cooperation between state and civil society, has emerged …

Tree species in agroforestry ecosystems contribute to the livelihoods of rural communities
and play an important role in the conservation of biodiversity. Unless agroforestry …

This article discusses the phenomenon of forced evictions in Africa and the implications for
land rights and human development. It argues that the “public interest “justification often …

Myriad projects have been introduced in recent decades in tropical forest and forest-edge
ecosystems to slow or reverse the rapid loss of biodiversity, deterioration of livelihood …

The management of forest ecosystems globally is shifting from a top-down-approach,
through centralised management by the state, to a more inclusive bottom-up approach …