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The study was undertaken in Tanzania to assess the effect of some macro-economic policies on livelihood strategies for households within or in close proximity in miombo woodlands. The focus was on how their responses are impacting on the management and use of the woodlands. Data were collected at...


Monela, G.C.Kajembe, G.C.Kaoneka, A.R.S.Kowero, G.S.[Household livelihood strategies in the miombo woodlands of Tanzania: emerging trends]Household livelihood strategies in the miombo woodlands of Tanzania: emerging trends
Autor: Yu Xiaogang

This article discusses the role of forests at different elevations in providing ecosystem services, and particularly water. It analyses the changes in forest management and their consequences over the post liberation period, concentrating on the post-1983 devolution of forest management to villag...


Yu Xiaogang[Conflict in resource management for ecosystem services: water in Lashi watershed, Lijiang]Conflict in resource management for ecosystem services: water in Lashi watershed, Lijiang

This brief article documents author's reasons for considering the answer to be "yes." She draws first on her extensive ethnographic experience in forest communities in the US and in several forested areas of Indonesia, with examples. Her second source of conviction in this view comes from her inv...


Colfer, C.J.P.[Women and forests: does their involvement matter?]Women and forests: does their involvement matter?

Forest devolution is meant to provide communities with greater decision-making power over the use and future of tropical forests. However, devolution policies have not always had the intended effect; in some cases they have caused or furthered the disenfranchisement of the poor, the creation of o...


Evans, K.Jong, W. deCronkleton, P.[Future Scenarios as a Tool for Collaboration in Forest Communities]Future Scenarios as a Tool for Collaboration in Forest Communities

This paper highlights the ways that gender analysis has been ignored in the development of forestry and land policy in Senegal. The development of local governance/ rural councils through history and their increased decision-making power that occurred with the 1996 decentralization/ regionalizati...


Bandiaky-Badji, S.[Gender equity in Senegal’s forest governance history: Why policy and representation matter]Gender equity in Senegal’s forest governance history: Why policy and representation matter

This review charts out recent developments in gender research in forestry research, with a focus on tropical and dry forests in developing countries. We reviewed 121 publications extracted from the Web of Knowledge database and publications by the Center for International Forestry Research for th...


Mai, Y.H.Mwangi, E.Wan, M.[Gender analysis in forestry research: looking back and thinking ahead]Gender analysis in forestry research: looking back and thinking ahead

Gender equality has been studied in community based forest certification projects in two forest user groups in Nepal. contributing to an understanding of gender equality with a focus on participation of women in a forest certification project and on awareness levels of forest users. Experts from ...


Lewark, S.George, L.Karmann, M.[Study of gender equality in community based forest certification programmes in Nepal]Study of gender equality in community based forest certification programmes in Nepal
Autor: Bose, P.

The current trend in forest tenure reform promotes identity-based categories, such as indigenous people, on the assumption that this provides better access to forest resources for marginalized groups. India’s historic Forest Rights Act of 2006 recognizes the traditional rights of the scheduled tr...


Bose, P.[Forest tenure reform: exclusion of tribal women’s rights in semi-arid Rajasthan, India]Forest tenure reform: exclusion of tribal women’s rights in semi-arid Rajasthan, India
Autor: Brown, H.C.P.

The Congo Basin region of Central Africa contains the second largest contiguous tropical rainforest in the world, which is an important source of livelihood for millions of people. It is also important for climate change adaptation, as well as mitigation policies on Reducing Emissions from Defore...


Brown, H.C.P.[Gender, climate change and REDD+ in the Congo Basin forests of Central Africa]Gender, climate change and REDD+ in the Congo Basin forests of Central Africa

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