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- Assessing the impacts of decentralization on livelihood, biodiversity and ecological sustainability in Uganda: A preliminary analysis of the pilot SANREM/IFRI siteBahati, Joseph; Banana, Abwoli Y.; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, W. (Uganda: Uganda Forest Resources and Institutions Center (UFRIC), Makerere University, 2008)In this paper we seek to assess the implication of decentralization on livelihood, biodiversity and ecological sustainability in Uganda. We aim to explain the change in woody-cover distributions in the Mabira Forest Reserve in the patches around Nakalanga and Kirugu settlements located on the northwestern edge of the forest. The purpose of the investigation was to further the understanding of how resource regimes, governed through a particular, enduring sociopolitical structure (decentralization), affect local use and management decisions in forest biomes as smallholders further integrate into external markets. Forest product use, residents' occupation, food security, land, and food decisions are analyzed to assess the importance of the forest on community livelihoods. The expansion of sugarcane in the Mabira forest edge, the introduction of collaborative forest management, and forest governance are linked to the sustainability of the current property arrangements and production systems practiced. Uganda's historical forest policy insights are presented to aid in better understanding of institutional design for environmental governance in forest biomes that partly explain existing outcomes of not only local users (e.g., livelihood and flow of resources), but also stakeholders at national, regional, and global levels. Although decentralization is fully institutionalized as a governance strategy, there is yet limited impact of decentralization policy on the livelihood of residents at the local level.
- Decentralized governance and ecological health: Why local institutions fail to moderate deforestation in Mpigi district of UgandaBanana, Abwoli Y.; Vogt, Nathan; Bahati, Joseph; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, W. (2007)Paper examining the effectiveness in managing forests of local institutions put in place during decentralization reforms of the mid-1990s in Mpigi District of Uganda.
- Integrating remote sensing data and rapid appraisals for land-cover change analyses in UgandaVogt, Nathan; Bahati, Joseph; Unruh, Jon; Green, G.; Banana, Abwoli Y.; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, W.; Sweeney, Sean (John Wiley & Sons, 2006)This article presents methods for investigating mechanisms of land-cover change that combines remotely sensed data, archival data, and rapid appraisals. Presents a case where increasing human activity results in accumulation of woody biomass on edaphic grasslands of a forest-grassland mosaic, rather than the expansion of grasslands at the expense of forests as is currently understood in that area.
- People and forests: Communities, institutions, and governanceGibson, C.; McKean, M.; Ostrom, Elinor (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000)This book explores interactions between communities and forests, focusing on the rules communities use to manage forest resources.
- Property right regimes and sustainable forest management: Lessons from fourteen years of monitoring of forest resources in UgandaNamaalwa, J.; Banana, Abwoli Y.; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, W. (2009)In Sub-Saharan Africa, deforestation and forest degradation have been the major problems facing natural forest resource management. Lack of clearly defined and enforced property rights, leading to a de facto open access situation have been pointed out as the major causes. National governments have been urged to remedy the situation through tenure changes such as privatisation and decentralization. This paper is based on the UFRIC study in Uganda and aims at investigating as to whether well defined and enforced property rights are a necessary and/or sufficient condition for sustainable forest management. This is done using 28 UFRIC forest sites under either private or government governance arrangements. The analysis indicates that both the state and private owned forests experience high degradation and deforestation levels, however, with high variations across the continuum for each governance regime. The paper concludes that establishing appropriate forms of tenure to delineate boundaries and limit exploitation constitutes an important step toward achieving sustainability. However, we need to identify other factors/conditions to complement this step in achieving sustainability. It therefore adds to other studies which show that the theoretical and policy perspectives concerning appropriate property rights for resources requires recognition of the specific historical, socioeconomic, political, and ecological contexts.