Socio-environmental drivers of forest change in rural Uganda

Mapping the Future Market Potential of Timber from Small-Scale Tree Farmers: Perspectives from the Southern Highlands in Tanzania

“…Access to land, not the cash income, defines households' interest to plant trees, which is in line with the findings of Kulindwa (2016). Land use pressure induced by population growth and escalated by the likely impacts of climate change (United Republic of Tanzania 2015) will remain high in Tanzania for years to come and increasing pressure for more agricultural land is likely to push tree growing into more remote areas and poorer sites, where expected returns on tree growing are smaller due to longer rotation ages and/or lower stocking rates that may need to be applied (Capitani et al 2016;Call et al 2017). Land holdings will fragment and shrink further due to the subdivision of land for descendants, leading to shortening rotations, especially on plantations established on agricultural land.…”

Climate anomalies, land degradation, and rural out-migration in Uganda

“…This approach is limited by attrition between survey rounds. At the same time, the rapid expansion of publicly-available microdata from censuses covering multiple decades (Thiede et al 2016) as well as from population surveillance sites with monthly time resolution (Call et al 2017) has already opened new avenues to address these issues. Existing, well-worn household surveys and country-to-country bilateral flow datasets have served migration-environment research well, but to provide a more comprehensive view of this process it is time the broaden the types of migration that we consider, as well as the nature of the data that we use.…”

“…Since the publication of Gray (2009), a large literature has developed that uses demographic and econometric methods to test for environmental influences on various types of migration (Borderon et al 2019;Cattaneo et al2019;Kaczan & Orgill-Meyer 2020). The majority of this literature has focused on the consequences of climate and natural disasters for long-distance and permanent migration, and it has largely supported the environmental risk hypothesis (H1) (Bohra-Mishra et al 2014;Mueller et al 2014;Jennings and Gray 2015;Mastrorillo et al 2016;Nawrotzki and DeWaard 2016;Bohra-Mishra et al 2017;Call et al 2017;Riosmena et al 2018). Nonetheless, a significant fraction of studies also document trapping processes that are consistent with the environmental capital hypothesis (H3) (Cattaneo and Peri 2016;Thiede and Gray 2017).…”

“…For our measure of forest cover we utilize the average percent tree cover of the pixels within a 1 kilometer radius of the community centroid. We selected this radius based on previous research exploring the relationship between forest cover and socio-environmental factors in Uganda (Call et al 2017). To measure soil fertility, we employ principal components analysis to construct an index of three management-sensitive soil properties that were measured consistently in 2003 and 2013: organic matter, total potassium, and available phosphorus.…”

Analysis of Land Use Change and Forestation in Response to Demographic Movement and Reduction of Forest Crime

“…Over the last 30 years, the number of studies focusing on the human-environment relationship has been increasing in order to determine the socio-demographic structure and the effect of the changes on forest assets (Call et al, 2017). In this context, the impact of the population on natural resources as the most important element of the sociodemographic structure is the main topic of the continuing work on the population-environment relationship (Tritsch & Le Tourneau, 2016).…”