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Assessing benefits of community based forest management: a case study of Gwata and Ludewa Villages in Morogoro Rural District, Tanzania
(University of Dar es Salaam, 2007) Mtango, Nangena
In Tanzania, forests play a vital role in the livelihoods of most rural communities. There is a heavy dependence on forests for basic household needs of rural communities, e.g. timber and non-timber forest products. Forests have been under the threat of depletion throughout the country because of heavy dependency on forests by forest adjacent communities, but also by demand for local and commercial exploitation. The main concerns of this study was whether benefits that are derived from forest are enough to the extent that they motivate communities to manage and conserve their forests and whether this will lead into sustainable community forest management assumptions, especially the limited range of motivations or incentives for CBFM in some forests in Tanzania. The study also recognizes that there are a number of opportunity costs that forest based and adjacent communities undertake in order to manage the forest successfully and therefore they are paying a disproportionate share in forest management and this situations threatens sustainable forest management.