Community-based Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR): Determinants and policy implications in Tanzania

Owusu, Raphael; Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon; Moyo, Francis

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105664

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“…For example, planting trees and forest management in some communities is a cultural practise passed down through the generations (Naima & Richard, 2016). This was further supported by Owusu et al (2021) who reported an inverse relationship between non-incentive and communities/individual household's interest in participating in FRL projects in Tanzania. Monetary incentives are the income generated from selling tree products, such as timber, whereas non-monetary incentives are derived from perceived benefits such as a source of food, medication, sacred/worship areas and ecology.…”

Section: Limited Public Awareness and Maintenancementioning

confidence: 84%

“…According to Simon (2013), most open spaces in African cities are for urban agriculture, which contributes approximately half of the food consumed in cities such as Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Kampala in Uganda. Similarly, tree planting, if there are locally available trees, can supplement food security alongside other benefits such as carbon sequestration, climate change adaptation and flood reduction (Owusu et al, 2021). Strategies such as these tackle the UN's 2030 global agenda to end poverty in all forms, achieve zero hunger by addressing food security, mitigate climate change and promote the Paris CCA.…”

Section: Nbs In East Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nature‐based Solutions for sustainable flood management in East Africa

Long'or Lokidor,

Taka,

Lashford

et al. 2023

J Flood Risk Management

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Africa's population is expected to triple by 2050, owing to rapid urbanisation and overall demographic trends. The combined pressures of urbanisation and climate change impact the ecosystem and the services it provides. As a result, additional dangers such as increased flooding, and environmental disruption have risen. Therefore, devising adaptive solutions to mitigate flood risk impacts while also building community resilience is needed. Evidence suggests that Nature‐based Solutions (NbS) can potentially alleviate floods and mitigate climate change impacts while also delivering other societal benefits. Despite rising NbS popularity following its recognition in the last decade, studies on its recognition in Africa remain limited. For this reason, this paper reviewed NbS studies conducted in East Africa (EA) to evaluate opportunities and barriers surrounding NbS adoption in EA. Academic literature published from January 2012 to May 2022 was reviewed using a comprehensive search of the SCOPUS database. Results show 14 papers have been published during the period, with the majority being post‐2020. In addition, the majority of the articles focused on cities and peri‐urban settlements, while public awareness, clear guidelines on performance monitoring, stakeholder inclusion, and diverse demonstration projects were highlighted as potential success factors for the adoption of NbS in EA.

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Section: Limited Public Awareness and Maintenancementioning

confidence: 84%

Section: Nbs In East Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature‐based Solutions for sustainable flood management in East Africa

Long'or Lokidor,

Taka,

Lashford

et al. 2023

J Flood Risk Management

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“…Outgrowing Scheme (OGS) re ects an optimistic scenario of the future, where KSB meets all its stated policy goals to alleviate poverty and manage natural resources sustainably. Existing forest resources are conserved and committed to increasing 10% by 2030, following the aim of AFR100--the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (Gizachew et al 2020;Owusu et al 2021). The population continues to grow, but slowly, at the growth rate stated by INDC, 1.5%.…”

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confidence: 99%

Modeling trade-offs among ecosystem services for agriculture in the “sisal belt” of Kilosa, central Tanzania

Turner

et al. 2023

Landsc Ecol

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Context.Exploring novel ways to maintain a healthy landscape while improving human welfare based on different human-environment relationships and competing interests from multiple stakeholders is critical for sustainable development under the context of the surging "global land rush" underway, and of increasing interest to landscape sustainability science. Objectives.This paper aims to: (1) integrate perceptions across various stakeholders to create landscape-based decision-making scenarios based on alternative future development visions, and (2) demonstrate tradeoffs and synergies among ecosystem and economic bene ts in a landscape under the scenarios and discuss the means to incorporate results from analyses into landscape management and planning. Methods.We combined the use of two spatially explicit modeling tools, Future Land Use Simulation (FLUS) and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST), to project future landscape patterns and predict changes in ecosystem services and commodity production under the three stakeholderde ned scenarios for the Kilsoa sisal belt region, Tanzania. Results.We found that all scenarios had higher commodity production values relative to the baseline conditions but various lower levels of ecosystem services. Carbon and water services may generate synergistic effects provided speci c mitigation and payment mechanisms are installed. Conclusions.Our approach provides an effective platform by which landscape management and planning decisions can be determined. An effort as such may enrich the dialogue amongst multi-level stakeholders dealing with the environment and development in the area and inform policymaking to balance the challenging goals among food production, resource use, poverty alleviation, and environmental conservation.

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“…At the same time, with their diverse land use systems, smallholders hold the key to integrating trees in agricultural land use, both in the form of woodlots and agroforestry systems (Ros-Tone et al, 2015). Recent research from Africa and Asia reinforces the need to consider smallholders in locally adapted FLR approaches by providing attractive incentives to elicit their engagement (Owusu et al, 2021;Tran et al, 2018). Beyond additional income generation, integrating trees in small-scale farming systems increases social resilience by providing food, commodities and vital environmental services at different scales (Kapp & Manning, 2014).…”

Section: Towards Smallholder Inclusion In Production-driven Flrmentioning

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A Value Chain Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration: Insights from Vietnam’s Production-Driven Forest Restoration

Benedikter

Kapp

2022

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According to FAO figures, over 129 million hectares of forests have been lost globally since the 1990s, mainly in the tropical Global South, where agriculture acts as the main driver of forest conversion. International commitments, such as the Bonn Challenge, aim to reverse this trend through the application of forest landscape restoration (FLR) as an integrated and inclusive restoration approach. Beyond the discourse level, however, FLR implementation lags behind expectations due to insufficient funding and a disconnection with local implementation. We argue that, instead of relying on public resources for conservation-driven restoration, increased private sector engagement may point the way out of the funding impasse. However, this requires a shift towards production-driven FLR, which includes the livelihood needs of communities and smallholders as agents of landscape transition. For achieving the dual purpose of connecting landscapes with markets and promoting sustainable landscape restoration, we ascribe value chains and their economic, social and ecological configurations a key role in production-driven FLR. Drawing on Vietnam’s forest restoration pathway as an illustrative case, we examine how production-driven forest restoration, smallholder engagement and value chain upgrading can stimulate positive landscape transitions. We conclude that, depending on their configuration, value chains can have negative or positive social and ecological impacts at the landscape level. Furthermore, regulated, progressive and high-value commodity chains may perform better in the areas of integrated FLR objectives landscape integrity, ecological functionality and human well-being.

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Community-based Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR): Determinants and policy implications in Tanzania

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Nature‐based Solutions for sustainable flood management in East Africa

Nature‐based Solutions for sustainable flood management in East Africa

Modeling trade-offs among ecosystem services for agriculture in the “sisal belt” of Kilosa, central Tanzania

A Value Chain Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration: Insights from Vietnam’s Production-Driven Forest Restoration

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