Retooling incentive mechanisms for effective smallholder tree growers’ contributions to global landscape restoration

Eric Mensah Kumeh, Boateng Kyereh, Joseph Asante, Godfred Ohene-Gyan, Valerie Fummey Nassah, Alexander Asare, Paul P. Bosu and Samuel Kwabena Nketiah

Development in Practice, 2023, vol. 33, issue 1, 94-109

Abstract: Amid the global tree-planting rush to restore degraded landscapes, this study examined how service providers organise incentives for smallholder forest plantations in rural Ghana. Current incentives push farmers to plant trees without adequate mechanisms for ensuring they benefit over time. This enables timber merchants to exploit many tree growers, discouraging most farmers from participating in restoration activities. While some tree growers innovate, converting their plantations into a sustainable charcoal system, land tenure insecurity and poor access to finance remain barriers policymakers, governments, and development practitioners must overcome to reinforce smallholders’ contributions and ability to benefit from landscape restoration perennially.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2022.2110571

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