Namibia?s National Forest Policy on Rural Development ? A Case Study of Uukolonkadhi Community Forest

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ats-2015-0002" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ats-2015-0002</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ats-2015-0002" target="_blank" >10.1515/ats-2015-0002</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Namibia?s National Forest Policy on Rural Development ? A Case Study of Uukolonkadhi Community Forest
Original language description
Forest resources still play a major role in sustaining livelihoods in rural communities, most especially in developing countries. Namibia?s community forests have much potential to combat rural poverty and contribute to rural development. Keeping the balance between the two chief objectives of the national forest policy; conservation and socio-economic development is of vital importance in combating both deforestation and rural poverty. Thus, this study primarily aimed to investigate the influence of Namibia?s national forest policy on forest resources contribution in rural development from 2009-2013. Forestry and environmental experts and local residents were interviewed. The results show that the lack of full governmental involvement in the management of community forests resources, low, erratic and irregular rainfall are the main challenges community forestry economy is facing. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis indicates that good institutional arrangemen
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AH - Economics
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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