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AcknowledgementsOur deepest gratitude goes to our supervisor, Professor Pål Olav Vedeld for hisvaluable comments and guidance throughout the process of preparation, fieldworkand writing this thesis. His guidance and knowledge has been invaluable for thecompletion of our study.We wish to express our appreciation to POVSUS-REDD for financing the fieldwork,as do we want to extend our thanks to all the people that assisted us while carrying outour fieldwork.First and foremost we want to thank Dos Santos Silayo and all the people at SokoineAgricultural University (SUA), and secondly our translators and research assistantswhich greatly helped us in the field. We extend a special thanks to the TFCG Staffand Kilosa District Staff for welcoming us warmly and assisting us in starting ourfieldwork. Finally we would like to thank everyone we interviewed for their time andcooperation.We wish to give a special thanks to Erik Tveit for helping us with our data for SPSS,and to David Tumusiime for his time and assistance in our process of analysing thedata. We also thank Liv Ellingsen at the Noragric library for her help in providingextensive literature on our topic.Last but not least we extend our deepest gratitude to our family and friends for theirpatience and support during the process of undertaking this study. We in particularwant to thank the Master “gang” at Dam Dam for their encouragement and motivationwhenever we felt lost.As a final note we also would like to thank each other for this great workingpartnership!!ii