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Forest resources and local elite capture: revisiting a community-based forest management ‘success case’ in Tanzania

In: Corruption, Natural Resources and Development

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  • Joseph Perfect Mrema

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Community-based natural resource management is frequently presented as a way to increase local representation in decision-making processes and reduce the risks of corruption. Revisiting a well-known 'success story' of community-based forest management in Tanzania, this chapter reflects on the effects of the capture of such projects by local elites. Despite being designed to conserve dwindling resources, community-based conservation programmes ended-up being captured by patronage and collusive networks. Contrasting with evaluations considering this project a success, these findings point at the importance of longitudinal evaluations sensitive to intra-community power relations. Keywords: Tanzania, community-based forest conservation, elite capture, intra-community power relations, patronage, collusion

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  • Joseph Perfect Mrema, 2017. "Forest resources and local elite capture: revisiting a community-based forest management ‘success case’ in Tanzania," Chapters, in: Aled Williams & Philippe Le Billon (ed.), Corruption, Natural Resources and Development, chapter 10, pages 131-141, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Appau, Yaw & Derkyi, Mercy Afua Adutwumwaa, 2022. "Local communities' knowledge and perception of FLEGT -VPA - insights from Ghana," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).

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