出版社：Centre for International Research and Advisory Networks (CIRAN)
摘要：The miombo woodlands of southern Africa
provide a large variety of inputs to the
livelihoods of rural people. Because of the
heavy dependence of local people on these forests,
there is growing interest in reorienting miombo
management practices, from the conventional
approach based on state control and professional
management by the forest service, to community
forest management. This new approach should be
aimed at meeting a multiplicity of local needs and
devolving responsibility for forest management to
local institutions (Campbell et al. 1996; Dewees
1996). Several studies have indicated that in the
miombo region local people are already actively
engaged in managing forest resources ( Shepherd
1992; Clarke 1994; Kajembe 1994; Campbell et al.
1996). These management practices are a good
example of indigenous knowledge pertaining to
forest resources. It has been posited that community
forest development should concentrate on using
and strengthening this indigenous knowledge
(Dewees 1996; see also Van Leeuwen 1998).
The present article sets out to assess the indigenous
knowledge of forest resources by focusing on the
farmers and traders of the miombo woodlands of
Tanzania. It examines the dynamics, variety and
limitations of forest knowledge, on the basis of a
survey of 13 villages in Morogoro District (Tanzania)
and centres on the potential use of indigenous
knowledge in stimulating community forestry.
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