Peasants’ Forests and the King’s Game? Institutional Divergence and Convergence in Tanzania’s Forestry and Wildlife Sectors

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ID20087537
AuthorsFred Nelson (0000-0003-4828-1270), Tom Blomley
Year2010
Pages92-118
Publication date2010-08-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCommunity Rights, Conservation and Contested Land (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781849775052-13
OpenAlexW2898914016
ISBN9781849775052
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Tanzania is one of Africa’s most richly endowed nations in terms of natural resources. The country’s economy and the livelihoods of its 38 million citizens are heavily reliant on natural resources and ecological services. Because of the importance of natural resources to local livelihoods and national economic activity, debates revolving around the use, control and management of these resources are central to issues of governance and political accountability in Tanzania. Natural resource management has been heavily centralized during the colonial and post-colonial periods, but the economic crisis of the 1980s contributed to the promotion of more locally-based, decentralized approaches to the management of natural resources such as forests and wildlife. With central government agencies facing greater resource pressures in an uncertain and changing national fiscal and political context, foreign donors and entrepreneurial individuals were able to influence reforms, as reflected in new wildlife and forestry policies released in 1998 that called for a much greater level of direct involvement in natural resource management by local communities

Agroforestry · Biology · Convergence (economics) · Divergence (linguistics) · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Natural resource economics · Tanzania · Wildlife · African history and culture studies · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Environmental Science · Forestry · Philosophy

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