European Tropical Forest Research Network

Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Sub-Saharan Africa

Programme themes for the e-discussion on humid and sub-humid land ecosystems in Africa

Theme 3: Major Constraints; and Research, Development and Policy Recommendations

• Majors constraints to rehabilitation of humid and sub-humid lands in SSA (discussions should be illustrated by information from real country case studies; and constraints should wide open, including policy, political, social, economic, legislative, technical, and institutional);
• Possible recommendations for forest management and development;
• Possible recommendations for research;
• Possible recommendations for forest policy formulation and implementation;
• Possible recommendations for forest institutional and legislative reforms.

Section III Moderator: Prof. A.S. Chamshama, Sokoine University of Agriculture (Tanzania, United Republic of)

Introduction to theme 3 by prof. A.S. Chamshama (Word 27 kb or pdf 19 kb)