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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2018
    Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

    Between 2012 and 2017, Vi Agroforestry and partners supported the development and implementation of the Lake Victoria Farmers’ Organisation Agroforestry (FOA) program. Under this program, and in cooperation with 40 member-based farmer organizations spread across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, approximately two million female and male farmers, school children and young people were mobilized to implement agroforestry and sustainable agriculture land management (SALM) practices in different agroecosystems of Lake Victoria catchment areas.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2018
    Tanzania

    Although Tanzania looks back onto a long history of land degradation, it has seen significant restoration efforts even before the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR 100) was launched. Building on this experience, the fact sheet highlights the main landscape restoration approaches employed in the country and elaborates on the major constraints as well as enabling conditions for FLR.

  3. Library Resource
    Regulations
    January, 2012
    Tanzania

    These Regulations make provision for the declaration, administration and management of wildlife management areas and the establishment of Community Based Organizations for such administration and management. They also provide for non-consumptive and consumptive utilisation of resources of wildlife management areas, the resolution of disputes and management of conflicts in such areas and define offences.Any village intending to designate an area as a Wildlife Management Area shall first establish a Community Based Organization in the manner prescribed under the Trustees’ Incorporation Act.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2011
    Tanzania, Africa

    Tanzania's land, local government and forest laws mean that rural communities have well defined rights to own, manage and benefit from forest and woodland resources within their local areas through the establishment of village forests. This approach, known by practitioners as Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) results in the legal establishment of village land forest reserves, community forest reserves or private forests. By 2008, 1,460 villages on mainland Tanzania1 were involved in establishing or managing village forests covering a total of over 2.345 million hectares.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Serbia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Zambia, Uganda, Guatemala, Denmark, Tanzania, Ecuador, Ghana, Congo, Malawi, Paraguay, Indonesia

    Esta es una guía para medir o evaluar la gobernanza forestal. La gobernanza forestal comprende todos los sistemas sociales y económicos que afectan la forma en que las personas interactúan con los bosques, incluyendo las burocracias, leyes, politicas, normas y culturas tradicionales, patrones de tenencia de la tierra y mercados.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Burkina Faso, United States of America, Zambia, Guatemala, Peru, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Ghana, Malawi, Finland, Kenya, Liberia, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Tanzania, Ecuador, Paraguay, Norway

    Forest governance assessment is an expanding practice. People are using Assessments to watch for developing problems, diagnose needs for reform, Monitor progress of programs, and evaluate impacts. Governments, civil society Organizations, development partners, academics and coalitions of stakeholders Have all performed assessments in recent years. In 2012, an expert meeting at fao headquarters in rome recommended the creation of a guide to good practices in forest governance assessment and data collection.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    France, Honduras, United States of America, Nepal, Germany, Peru, United Kingdom, Canada, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Niger, Eritrea, New Zealand, Rwanda, Morocco, Malaysia, Somalia, Italy, Tanzania, China, Kenya

    FAO and the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD have joined efforts to prepare this discussion paper on sustainable financing for FLR. It provides an overview of existing funding sources and financial instruments that could be used and adapted specifically for the implementation of FLR efforts at the national, regional and global levels. It identifies innovative financing mechanisms to support the achievement of these global targets and discusses the main challenges for enhanced FLR financing.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Tanzania, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act makes provision with respect to the procedures and processes in accordance with which land use in a planning area or zone are prescribed, managed, monitored and evaluated. The Act sets out the fundamental principles of land use, establishes land use planning authorities and provides with respect to land planing procedures and authorizations.

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Tanzania

    This paper explains the major issues and
    lessons derived from the national forest management program
    and REDD+ initiatives in Tanzania. It finds that addressing
    the most important drivers of forest degradation and
    deforestation, in particular the country energy needs and
    landownership, is essential for success in reducing
    emissions regardless of the type of program implemented. It
    also finds that, through the national program, forest users

  10. Library Resource
    Regulations
    Tanzania, Africa, Eastern Africa

    The District Council may declare any area a prohibited or preserved (area). All areas listed in the First Schedule are hereby declared preserved areas (by-law 3). No person shall cultivate, cut any grass, or graze animals in any preserved area (by-law 4). The Council shall, after consultation with the Agricultural Officer, prescribe the type of agricultural or animal husbandry, the type of crops that may be planted and the steps taken to prevent soil erosion and to conserve water in a prescribed area (by-law 5).

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