This article draws from the conceptual framework of techno-bureaucratic and
developmentalist doxas to understand the social practice of responsibilization in …

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

In recent years, non-industrial private forestry (NIPF) for timber production has gained
economic importance in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Access to benefits accrued …

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 …

Tanzania faces an acute shortage of timber that can only be met by private tree growers, at
least in the short to medium term. The Tanzanian government in various policy document …

This report presents an analysis of the nature of both indigenous and professionally
sponsored community forest management systems in two districts in Tanzania. It describes …

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 …

Commercial forestry is a growing industry in Tanzania, and is central to several major
development sectors including construction and rural electrification, and is among the …

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

The growth of mining activities in Africa in the last decade has coincided with increased
attention on the fate of the continent's forests, specifically in the contexts of livelihoods and …