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6. PRIORITIES FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY FORESTS IN AFRICA

After a long period of forests being managed according to protection and exclusionary principles, which denied communities the right and mean to benefit from forest resources, recent years have seen a move towards community-based approaches to forest management in eastern and southern Africa. Most national forest policies now contain the stated aims of managing and using forest resources in pursuit of sustainable development goals, and to the economic benefit of local communities. These policy goals have been translated into a series of actions that attempt to provide economic incentives for community involvement in sustainable forest management (Mogaka et al., 2001).


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