Timber Rush – Private forestry on village land

Timber Rush investigates the scale and drivers of the current investments in land and timber in Tanzania, testing the hypothesis that investments are first and foremost driven by domestic factors related to increased market demand for timber for industrial use, particularly construction, nationally and in the East African region.

Timber Rush further investigates the impact of investments in land for timber production on local people’s access to and benefits from land and other resources, testing the hypothesis that the main beneficiaries of investments in timber production are to be found among the domestic investors based in Tanzania’s urban areas while local people bear the costs. Also, the Timber Rush project provides for capacity building to strengthen the social science approach to the study of forest and natural resource management at Sokoine University of Agriculture.

Timber Rush – Private forestry on village land. Photo by Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen
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Timber Rush is a 5-year research programme (March 2016 – February 2021), coordinated by Sokoine Agricultural University (Tanzania) in collaboration  with Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and funded through a grant provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (MFA).

Timber Rush is carried out by a group of researchers from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro (Tanzania), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), and Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen (Denmark)

Workshops and trainings

WriteShop, 11-15 June 2018, Iringa, Tanzania
Timber Rush researchers produces texts for the project websites and discusses the editing and different uses of documentary film footage.

The writeshop trains participants in both academic and journalistic writing with practical exercises put to use top produce texts to websites and social media.

The writeShop discusses and develops the Timber Rush communication plan, honing the understanding of the importance of target groups and making specific plans for activities reaching out to the target groups: other researchers, NGOs and policy makers.

Iringa, 12 June 2018

 

 

Forskning og aktiviteter

Kontakt

Esbern Friis Hansen
Bæredygtig udvikling og regeringsførelse
Seniorforsker
+45 9132 5434
Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen
Bæredygtig udvikling og regeringsførelse
Seniorforsker
91325504