Forestry, governance and national development : lessons learned from a logging boom  in Southern Tanzania

Forestry, governance and national development : lessons learned from a logging boom in Southern Tanzania

This study of contemporary timber trade has provided a revealing example of how governance shortfalls in the forestry sector can ultimately affect the prospects for achieving national economic growth and poverty objectives. Whilst numerous opportunities and benefits of timber trade have been, and continue to be, realized, this report illustrates how poor forestry governance directly undermines two clusters of the 2005 National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP)

Publication
2007
Authors
Milledge, Simon, Gelvas, Ised, Ahrends, Antje