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Title: | Rapid rural appraisal for economics: exploring incentives for tree management in Sudan: report of a field based workshop conducted in Sudan 20 February-3 March, 1989 |
Editors: | Pretty, Jules N. Scoones, Ian C. |
Year: | 1989 |
Pages: | 47 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | London |
Publisher: | International Institute for Environment and Development |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | 1989 forestry conference papers (form) |
Abstract: | Rapid rural appraisal techniques offer an approach to understanding the complexity of farming and livelihood systems. For the topic of tree management this complexity must be disaggregated so as to understand how incentives work at regional, village, group, and individual levels. This study focuses on two villages in the proximity of Khartoum, Sudan, and illustrates these different determinants of local incentives. It is the result of a rapid rural appraisal exercise, involving workshops and field analysis, carried out from 20 February to 3 March, 1989. At the regional level, the influences on tree management relate to changing patterns of wood product supply and demand, and the interaction of urban and rural markets. For the village farming system uncertainty over economic, tenurial, and environmental factors have a considerable impact on tree management incentives. Land use, tenure patterns and institutional control over communal forest land are also found to be significant. The preferences for trees expressed by different groups in a village (settled inhabitants and displaced migrants, men and women) influence assessments of the costs and benefits of alternative tree management options. Similarly, different socioeconomic groups have varying, and sometimes competing, interests in the local resource base and are affected to different degrees by changes in the wider wood economy. |