Tree planting and household food security: the case of the Shouthern Highlands of Tanzania
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Date
2025
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Mkuki na Nyota
Abstract
Large-scale investment in land in Sub Saharan Africa has been well documented (Cotula et al., 2009; Fairhead et al., 2012; German et al.,2013). Since independence, tree plantations in Tanzania had gone through undulating phases (Van den Berg et al., 2013; MNRT, 2014;
PFP, 2016; Held et al., 2017; Kimambo et al., 2020). Promotion of tree planting by donor funded projects has been focusing on environmental aspects such as carbon trading (Lasco, 2008, MNRT, 2010; Vainio-
Matilla, 2011, Kimambo et al., 2020). Furthermore, the dominance of the sector by the state during the 1970s and 1980s was primarily focused on the establishment of large-scale tree plantations in the Southern
Highlands (Pedersen, 2017)37. Nevertheless, for a long period of time, tree plantations in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania has been done by public plantations and big commercial private companies for timber and other commercial purposes (PFP, 2016). A study done by PFP found that Tanzania experienced a reduction in government managed plantations particularly in the supply of mature pine round wood
logs (PFP, 2016). It indicated a reduction of 30% (total 540,300 m3) in government allocations from 2014/15 to 2015/16 harvesting season whereas the number of beneficiaries for allocations increased from 832
to 964 respectively.
Description
Book chapter, pp. 213-231
Keywords
Tree planting, Household food security, Shouthern Highlands, Timber Rush