| Uganda is agricultural based country.Similarly,forests have been as important source of national income in Uganda.Forests also play a significant role in the environmental services sector.Also,a high number of the rural people are averagely poor and depend on forests and forest resources for their livelihood.Positive approach of local communities towards forest management activities are an important precondition for local forest management development and its high impacts on income in Eastern Uganda.Rural people have negative responses to forest management activities in different forest reserves because of the stringent forest resource use laws.For a long time,local people have had restricted access to extract traditional non-timber forest products from Forest Reserves and were not given timber felling licenses,this denied them the benefits of timber business(which was a source of income to many)and resulted in mistrust,antagonism and conflicts with the Forest Department.A survey of 180 households conducted from the Eastern region showed the correlations between the socio-economic characteristics of people living near the forest and the use of forest resources and showed the impact of forestry management development on local communities? income.Since Uganda is going through the process of democratic reform and decentralization of public administration.It is felt that local communities should be encouraged to comanage and benefit from the surrounding forest resources.Descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression and logistic regression by STATA were used in analysis.According to this result,there is an average willingness to participate in forest management.Also,the result showed that age and education level did not have strong impact on household income and participation in forest management whilst household size had positive impact in both cases.This study addressed concerns of co-existence of household incomes and participation in forest management. |
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