A historical political ecology of forest access and use in Sudan: Implications for sustainable rural livelihoods |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, Technical University of Dresden, Cotta Bau, Pienner Str. 7, 01737 Tharandt, Germany;2. Department of Forest Management, University of Khartoum, 13314 Shambat, Sudan;1. University of Bonn (ZEF), Germany;2. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome;3. Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;1. School of public administration, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China;2. Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, PRC;1. Department of Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania;2. Department of Forest Management Science, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Technology, University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan;3. Department of Basic Sciences, College of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, University of Bahri, Khartoum, Sudan;4. Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden;5. Department of Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany;1. University of Kassel and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Section Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics, Steinstrasse 19, 37213, Witzenhausen, Germany;2. University of Kassel, Section Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, Steinstrasse 19, 37213, Witzenhausen, Germany;3. Centre Régional AGRHYMET, Boulevard de l’Université, BP 11011, Niamey, Niger;4. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
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| Abstract: | This paper analyzes and explains the development of forest governance over time and its impact on forest-dependent livelihoods in Sudan. Therefore, a qualitative historical analysis method was used to capture and interpret the analytical dimensions of the Political Ecology Approach (PEA). The historical review of the forestry development provides an insight into Sudan’s transforming governance framework for forest access and use, especially the related legislation, policies and resource administrations. This study concludes that unequally distributed forest resource access and institutional arrangements over time are detrimental factors for forest-dependent poverty and environmental degradation. Our study suggests that a more supportive governance framework, which integrates rural livelihood vulnerability with sustainability parameters, is needed thus to resolve the currently most contradictory forest management paradigms. |
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| Keywords: | Land use Political ecology Forest governance Land degradation Sustainable livelihoods Sudan |
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