http://www.efdinitiative.org This folder contains EfD projects. daily 1 2007-11-25T17:36:13Z http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/the-impact-of-fertilizer-subsidy-on-cereal-crops-production-and-land-conservation-in-tanzania One of the policy measures adopted in the recent past by the government of Tanzania during the implementation of the Agricultural Sector Development Program and the Kilimo Kwanza Strategy is a subsidy to fertilizer and other agricultural inputs through the Voucher system No publisher Salvatory Fertilizer use 2012-01-09T09:47:56Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/improving-the-potential-for-successful-implementation-of-redd-in-tanzania REDD – Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation – is a new form of payment for environmental services that has to potential to fund forest protection in Tanzania. No publisher Salvatory Forest management 2011-12-27T08:47:45Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/improving-the-potential-for-successful-implementation-of-redd-in-tanzania-1 REDD – Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation – is a new form of payment for environmental services that has to potential to fund forest protection in Tanzania. REDD programs would build on the Government of Tanzania’s introduction of new forest laws that have enabled the implementation of Participatory Forest Management (PFM)Because any policy that slows forest degradation does so by limiting resource access bynearby forest-dependent communities, implementing REDD will require understanding those communities forest management/use decisions and their likely response to REDD policies, even if REDD policies funnel monies to those communities. No publisher Salvatory 2011-12-27T07:03:25Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/projects/project-repository/protecting-peri-urban-forests-and-livelihoods-spatial-enforcement-issues-and-incentives-for-community-based-initiatives-1 This project stems from discussions with forest managers whose existing policies have not created the hoped-for incentives for locals to engage in enforcement of access restrictions by outsiders. This is particularly important for Kibaha’s forests because of their proximity to Dar es Salaam, a large city with high demand for charcoal and timber. Forest managers do not have mechanisms for influencing where local villagers harvest NTFPs; they also have little information on which to base their allocation of scarce patrol efforts. No publisher Salvatory Forest management 2011-02-24T06:55:16Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/investments-labor-market-participation-and-participatory-forest-management-in-tanzania The goal of the proposed project is to improve environmental sustainability and reduce rural poverty in Tanzania. The project seeks to achieve this goal by focusing on PFM, which has its main goal to increase forest stocks. The proposed project looks at the linkage between forest policies and standard on-farm economic effects. The project is therefore expected to increase understanding about how better forest managment impacts critical, standard economic objectives like investments and labor market development No publisher Salvatory Investment 2011-12-27T06:33:24Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/assessing-tanzania2019s-marine-protected-areas-incentives-opportunities-and-constraints Tanzania’s seven Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are governed by the same set of national laws and regulations, but face different opportunities and pressuresthat depend in part on location, the number of local communities dependent on the marine resources, and tourism opportunities. No publisher Salvatory 2011-12-27T06:51:03Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/projects/project-repository/incentives-to-cooperate-with-marine-protected-areas-as-a-function-of-location-mnazi-bay-ruvuma-estuary-marine-park-case-study As marine protected areas (MPAs) are applied in poor countries, and in particular in Mnazi Bay, Tanzania, managers recognize that the success of the MPA in protecting fish, biodiversity, and reefs stems from the response of local people – whether that response comes from direct enforcement activities or from incentives to cooperate with new restrictions. In Mnazi Bay, managers are combining enforcement of new regulations on fishing locations and technology with investments in community-based projects and resource management councils and widespread education efforts. In the terrestrial setting, integrated development-conservation projects (ICDPs) typically failed due to a lack of linkage between the development projects and conservation incentives and goals, leaving the development projects as compensation for losses associated with enforcement of access restrictions. MPA implementation seeks to avoid such failures and induce cooperation by focusing on projects that rely on healthy oceans and mangrove forests in addition to providing new technologies like larger mesh nets. No publisher karinbackteman Albers, Heidi, Elizabeth Robinson and Razack Lokina(2010), "Incentives to Cooperate with Marine Protected Areas As a Function of Location: Mnazi Bay Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park Case Study", EFD 2010 research project. Common pool resources Regulation Corruption Marine and aquatic resources Enforcement 2010-03-26T13:06:18Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/projects/project-repository/booming-fish-exports-and-relative-welfare-of-local-communities-empirical-evidence-from-around-lake-victoria-tanzania The project aims at assessing the welfare implication of the booming fish export at the household level around Lake Victoria. With the experience of the pilot study conducted successfully last September by Andrea Mannberg –a Ph.D candidate who is also working in the project. Adolf Mkenda and John Mduma coordinate the project and other logistics for the final field work to be carried out in March-April 2008. They are in charge of organizing the term of interviewers from the Lake Victoria regions and also organizing the interviewee. No publisher john Equity and distributional analysis Marine and aquatic resources Household modelling 2010-05-14T06:38:50Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/projects/project-repository/the-scope-for-environmental-fiscal-reforms-in-tanzania-the-case-of-fuel-taxation-2 This paper aims at assessing the scope and the desirability of increasing tax on fossil fuel in Tanzania in the context of environmental fiscal reforms. A.F Mkenda, J.K Mduma and W.M Ngasamiaku are the lead authors in this paper. The paper will attempt to tackle three critical issues namely; (i) the extent that tax on fuel can boost government revenue in line with the quest for fiscal reform, (ii) the extent that tax on fuel can lead to reduction in fuel consumption, taking into account the existing substitution possibilities and (iii) the distributional impact of taxation on fuel, particularly its impact on the poor. No publisher john Taxation Environmental fiscal reform Equity and distributional analysis 2010-05-14T06:38:07Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/projects/project-repository/improving-the-effectiveness-of-joint-forest-management-in-tanzania Following the 1998 National Forest Policy and the Forest Act of 2002, participatory forest management (PFM) is being introduced in Tanzania, yet little rigorous analysis has been undertaken to determine the effectiveness of PFM, in terms of both protecting forest resources and improving forest-dependent livelihoods and thereby reducing poverty. No publisher john Forest management Policy instruments Poverty reduction strategy 2010-05-14T06:36:04Z Article