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Titre : Assessment of Management of Communal Forests by Local People. Case Study ; Singa Locality

Auteur : El Amin Sanjak

Université de soutenance : University of Khartoum

Grade : Master of Science (MS) in Forestry 2004

Résumé partiel
In community forest, management the responsibility for making proper arrangements on both technical and organizational aspects rests with local villagers based on their objectives. Much progress has been made in obtaining a better understanding about these different objectives of local people for managing tree resources. The starting premise of this research is to tackle the issue of management of communal forests on sustainable basis for the sake of attaining pre-specified objectives by the rural communities. Singa locality was selected as a case study for this research. Despite the wide spread of community forestry activity in its different forms in the study area, the activity is challenged by the commitment participation of local inhabitants to guarantee sustainable development of the activity. The extensionists used to focus on nursery techniques and tree planting and ignore the other silvicultural operations. This situation becomes worse with the phase-out of the NGOs from the study area.. The broad objective of this research is to assess the potentiality of managing the communal forests on sustainable bases. Two types of data were used to collect the necessary information, namely, primary and secondary data. The primary data was principally collected through interviews with the local people the secondary data includes FNC files, annual reports, projects documents and pervious studies conducted in the same sides. Although animal rearing is the main economic activity in the area, the local people proved to be able to establish communal forests

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