Researchers from Makerere University Environment for Development Initiative (EfD-Mak) Centre on 7th September, 2021 converged in a seminar to learn from the EfD-Tanzania on how to effectively operate…
A team of researchers from Makerere University led by Dr. Aisha Nanyiti and Dr. Fred Matovu have won two of the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD ) 2021 Grants worth USD 144, 918 funded by…
Does a devolution policy of forestland management to households help conserve forests? Does giving land use right as a property right or as per contract work better? A recent EfD research titled “Does…
Roger Madrigal, Director of EfD Central America, will coordinate a five-year research project on Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). The purpose is to develop PES-models to tackle forest degradation…
In the decentralization of forest management, the state devolves forestland use right to communities. What if the state devolves the right directly to individual households, not to communities? Does this policy work and within this policy what devolution mechanism works better in terms of forest conservation? This paper addresses these questions using the context of mangrove forest in Viet Nam. Mangrove forest areas in Viet Nam have experienced a substantial decline during the last century.
While forests are a primary source of energy for the majority of Tanzanian households, the forest cover is rapidly declining. The Tanzanian government has introduced a tree-planting campaign strategy, aimed at reducing pressure on natural forests.
Participation of local communities in forest management decision-making has been promoted as a mechanism of improving livelihoods and forest conditions, yet the level of participation in many programs remains low. Using data from a cross-sectional survey of 924 forest-dependent households in Western Kenya, we examine the factors that support or constrain forest dependent people's participation in a Participatory Forest Management (PFM) program.
Developing country forests sustain livelihoods, help to control flooding, recharge aquifers, pollinate crops, cycle nutrients, harbor biodiversity, and sequester carbon. As a result, forest loss and degradation have serious environmental and socioeconomic consequences. Decentralization and devolution of governance have arguably been the most important policy trend affecting developing countries’ forests over the past three decades.
• Avoiding 1% of catchment's forest loss reduces chemicals use by 0.026% in Costa Rica.
• Improving the turbidity by 1% decreases 0.005% aluminum sulfate needed at the water plants.
• The value of water purification service by forests is USD 9.5 per hectare per year.
• The contribution of forest (per ha) becomes larger as the size of the catchment decreases.