Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/176710 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
DIIS Working Paper No. 2017:04
Publisher: 
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
Tanzania faces an acute shortage of timber that can only be met by private tree growers, at least in the short to medium term. The Tanzanian government in various policy document acknowledges this. However, little has happened in terms of implementation. This paper aims to explain why. Based on a review of the existing literature it argues that a combination of path-dependency and vested interests among Tanzanian state authorities and actors has rendered more fundamental changes difficult. The control over forests has been a major priority for many years, though disguised in the form of state-led management and conservation paradigms. This means that the growth of private actors, not least the non-industrial private forests (NIPF), a main focus of the paper, seems to have happened more despite state forest policies and institutions than because of them. An update of legal and institutional frameworks governing forestry is therefore needed.
ISBN: 
978-87-7605-881-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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