Despite the great social, economic and environmental diversity in countries of Africa South of Sahara (SSA), forestry research issues and advances are quite similar. This is partly influenced by historical facts relating to forest resource ownership and management. In most countries, governments ...
Temu, A.B.
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Kowero, G.S.
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[Forestry research in Sub-Sahara Africa: time for reflection]
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Forestry research in Sub-Sahara Africa: time for reflection
This paper dicusses the potential impacts of macroeconomic policies on forestry in Zimbabwe. Over the period 1980-2001, macroeconomic policies have swung from a centrally controlled economy to a liberalized economy. In general, Zimbabwe's experience suggests tha macroeconomic policies have had ne...
In 1995 a survey of research capacity was conducted at institutions undertaking forestry-related research in the SADC countries. This document presents a review of the methods available for the assessment of research capacity and summarizes previous efforts to assess research capacity in the regi...
Kowero, G.S.
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Spilsbury, M.J.
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[Capacity for Forestry Research in the Southern African Development Community]
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Capacity for Forestry Research in the Southern African Development Community
Efficient applied research systems are those that achieve a good match between the priority research problems and the capacity required to solve them. Effective research systems make a difference to real life problems through the timely delivery of readily utilisable research-based solutions to u...
Spilsbury, M.J.
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Kowero, G.S.
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Mukolwe, M.O.
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Netzehti, A.
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Legesse, W.W.
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Nsengiyumva, O.
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Kiwuso, P.
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Sabas, E.
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[Forest-related research capacity in Eastern Africa: Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda]
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Forest-related research capacity in Eastern Africa: Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda