Forestry policy reform and the role of incentives in Tanzania

The Government of Tanzania is addressing ongoing degradation problems with a new Forest Policy that reflects changes in the national and international policy environment for forest management. The paper looks at some aspects of forest policy reform, based on the underlying assumption that roles, fun ctions, characteristics and performance of institutions and organizations f or natural resources management - on different administrative levels - are essential factors for promoting sustainable resource use and development. T he authors argue that policy design critically depends on a proper analysis of the incentives structures at work, and propose five issues for forest p olicy development in a developing country context. (C) 2001 Elsevier Scienc e B.V. All rights reserved.