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    Attitudes of local communities towards forest management practices in Uganda: the case of Budongo Forest Reserve
    ( 1998) Obua, Joseph ; Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Turyahabwe, N.
    Positive attitudes of local communities towards forest management practices are an essential prerequisite for local participation in forest management. In Budongo Forest Reserve, local communities have negative attitudes towards forest management practices because of the strict rules on forest resource utilization. For a long time local people have had restricted access to extract traditional non-timber forest products from Budongo Forest Reserve and were not given timber-felling licenses. This denied them the benefits of timber business and resulted in mistrust, antagonism and conflicts with the Forest Department. A study of 200 households showed the associations between socio-economic features of people living close to the forest and their use of forest resources and demonstrated the basis of attitudes towards those managing the forest. Since Uganda is going through the process of democratic reform and decentralisation of public administration, it is felt that local communities could be empowered to co-manage and benefit from forest resources in their vicinity.
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    Case study - Property rights: access to land and forest resources in Uganda
    (Oxford University Press, 2001) Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S. ; Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Bahati, Joseph
    Property rights influence the incentives and the behavior of individuals within a community with respect to rules that each and every person must observe in his/her interactions with other people (Hallowell 1943; Bromley 1992). Tenure consists of a bundle of rights that an individual has in a resource (Bruce 1989). It includes the terms and conditions under which resources are owned, accessed, managed, and transferred. Therefore, the rights that users have affect the incentives for sound use or misuse of resources. Consequently, tenure must be taken into account when planning strategies for natural resource management.
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    Farmers' adoption of rotational woodlot technology in Kigorobya Sub-County of Hoima District, Western Uganda
    (Ethnobotany Research & Applications, 2008) Buyinza, Mukadasi ; Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Nabanoga, G. ; Ntakimanye, A.
    This paper evaluates, using logistic and multiple regression analyses, the socio-economic factors that influence farmers’ decisions to adopt rotational woodlot technology in the farming systems of Uganda, based on a household survey carried out between May and December 2004, involving 120 farmers in Kigorobya sub-county, Hoima district. The analyses demonstrate that farmers make decisions about woodlot technology based on the household and field characteristics. The factors that significantly influenced the decision to adopt rotational woodlot technology included: gender, tree tenure security, seed supply, contact with extension and research agencies, soil erosion index, size of landholding, fuelwood scarcity, and main source of family income. To promote greater adoption of rotational woodlot technology, particular attention should be placed on the use of appropriate socioeconomic characterization, to better target technologies to areas with greater adoption potential.
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    Provisional methodology for the assessment of trees outside forests (TOF) in Uganda.
    ( 2002) Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Kanabahita, Charotte ; Byabashaija, Denis Mujuni
    Trees outside forest reserves are characterized by relatively small sizes, multiplicity of ownership and by diverse character of individual woodlots scattered over the country. Little data currently exist on forests outside forest reserves. Until very recently, only some preliminary case studies have been made on this aspect. This is partly due to the methodological difficulties involved, as almost all trees outside forests consist of a mixture of many different species of which no volume or yield tables are available and of which very little is known about their age. Also, very few private owners would be willing to allow destructive sampling methodologies to be used to obtain data on tree volumes in their woodlots. Despite their contribution to third world economies, trees outside forests(TOF) have been and continue to be grossly underestimated. This is reflected in the value attached to them in the current National Forestry statistics. It has long been assumed that local demands are sustained by products from forest estates. However, in the recent past, data are becoming available which indicate that the majority of wood used in rural areas is obtained locally outside forest reserves. Planners, administrators, and politicians seem to lack meaningful and reliable information on key issues of TOF (increment, recruitment, regeneration, standing stock~harvesting, and extraction). In the context of the ongoing efforts in Uganda to improve forest management, it is important to understand the key issues relating to the role, current and potential, of TOF and to identify measures to enhance their contribution. This paper presents an overview of the importance of TOF, the current availability of information on TOF, available methodologies of data collection, past efforts of data collection and suggests a suitable methodology for data collection on TOP. Advances in contemporary forest management require data and information on a new dimension, namely the socio-economic factors. By focusing on this aspect, the proposed methodology, we hope will fill the important information gaps that have been neglected by previous methodologies.
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    Socio-economic determinants of farmers' adoption of rotational woodlot technology in Kigoryobya sub-county, Hoima district, Uganda
    (South African Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2008) Buyinza, M. ; Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Nabanoga, Gorettie ; Ntakimye, A.
    Understanding the factors affecting farmers’ adoption of rotational woodlot technologies is critical to the success of implementing tree planting programmes. This paper evaluates, using logistic and multiple regression analyses, the socioeconomic factors that influence farmers’ decisions to adopt rotational woodlot technology in the farming systems of Uganda, based on a survey of 120 farmers in Kigorobya subcounty, Hoima district. The analyses demonstrate that farmers make decisions about woodlot technology based on household and field characteristics. The factors that significantly influenced adoption decisions included: gender, tree tenure security, seed supply, contact with extension and research agencies, soil erosion index, size of landholding, fuelwood scarcity, and main source of family income. To promote greater adoption of rotational woodlot technology, particular attention should be placed on the use of appropriate socioeconomic characterization, to better target technologies to areas with greater adoption potential.