Performance of four-year-old Australian and Papua New GuineanAcaciaspecies/provenances at Kongowe, Kibaha, Tanzania

Key factors that influence households’ tree planting behaviour

“…Despite the existing tree planting constraints, which inhibit tree planting programmes in Tanzania (Kindo et al ., ), on average a household planted about 25 trees, with a large variation across households. We found six common tree species planted in the areas we studied, namely Eucalyptus, Acacia, Albizia Lebeck, Senna Siamea, Casuarina, and Cedrela Ordorata (Table ).…”

“…Regardless of tree planting programmes that were established in 1999/2000 (Malimbwi and Zahabu, ) and the New Forest Policy of 1998 and Forest Act No. 14 of 2002, recognizing the role of various stakeholders, including local communities, tree planting has not been successful in the country (Kindo et al ., ). We argue that households’ behaviour regarding tree planting depends on several social, cultural, economic and technological factors in line with the intervention designed to stimulate planting practices, and these factors need to be understood and are critical to the achievement of tree planting programmes (Cooke et al ., ).…”