Woodlands and the charcoal trade: the case of Dar es Salaam City

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dc.contributor.authorMalimbwi, Rogers E
dc.contributor.authorZahabu, Eliakimu M
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-10T09:56:50Z
dc.date.available2022-05-10T09:56:50Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractTanzania has a total area of about 94.5 million ha out of which 88.6 million ha is covered by land- mass and the rest is inland water. Forests and woodlands in Tanzania cover about 34 million hec- tares making about 40% of land. Gazetted forestland is about 13 million hectares, predominantly managed by the Central Government. Only 600 000 hectares of the gazetted forest land are under the ownership and management of Local Governments. Game reserves and national parks consti- tute about 2 000 000 ha. Non gazetted forests in public lands cover about 19 million hectares and this is where forests are facing serious conversion to competing land uses. Non gazetted forests are also known as general land forests which are essentially open access. Deforestation in Tanza- nia, which is estimated at between 130 000 to 500 000 hectares per annum occurs mostly in the general land forests as well as degradation (loss of biomass) over much of the total forest area. Establishment of village forest reserves under Participatory Forest Management (PFM) which started in 1990s was found to retard deforestation in unreserved forestland. To date more than 3 million ha are under PFM (MNRT 2006) which is about 11% of total forest area. This reduces the open access forest area in the general land from 19 million ha to about 16 million, which is 47% of the entire forested land (Table 1).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4095
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectWoodlandsen_US
dc.subjectCharcoal tradeen_US
dc.titleWoodlands and the charcoal trade: the case of Dar es Salaam Cityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.urlhttp://www.metla.fi/julkaisut/workingpapers/2008/mwp098.htmen_US

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