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then the government goes ahead and gives this land it would in effect be providing an equivalent subsidy (US$ 10.57 – 21.14), on the basis of the land rates in the area 30 alone. To create a level playing field in the market place the government would have to make similar overtures to other agricultural estate based firms in the country. The Economic Valuation of the Proposed Degazettement of Mabira CFR | 2011
5.0. THE CONSERVATION OPTION 5.1. CONSERVATION OPTIONS FOR MANAGING FOREST RESOURCES The aim of sustainable forest management is to coordinate the diverse activities of forest users while balancing the economic and ecological integrity of the forest. Forests produce a range of natural products, timber, non- timber forest products, are habitat to biodiversity and provide the opportunity to store carbon. Sustainable forest management brings out the ?compliments? of the above outputs while also maintaining the quality of the ecosystem. Previously, the perceived urgency of combating deforestation in tropical regions emphasized ecological criteria of management. Ecological criteria based on natural science were used to designate natural areas for protection. Human activities were restricted and human comunites relegated to surrounding areas. These command and control approaches have mostly failed (Cernea, 1986; Weber, 1996). New approaches focusing on economic criteria have now emerged. The emergence of conservation economics, in the 1970s, defined new approaches to managing natural environments, in which economic criteria were taken into account along with ecological criteria. In fact, the modern model has for the most part shifted from ecological management to economic management (Pearce and Pearce, 2001). The reasoning and assumptions behind economic management of tropical forests are that they can be managed to ensure optimal use of the resource availability to society i.e. the economic management is about allocating these resources where they will be best used and will maximise social well-being. 5.2. CONSERVATION ECONOMICS 5.2.1. Importance of economic valuation Economic valuation is a tool for decision-making intended to compare the advantages and disadvantages of alternative development options or alternatives. The value of forests depends not only on the market prices of its direct uses but is also based on other indirect uses of the forest resources that cannot be traded in the market (Lette & de Boo 2002). Valuation of the goods and services provided by forests is needed because these areas are under great pressure and are in fact disappearing. Extensive areas of Mabira CFR were severely encroached not too long ago (Karani et al 1997). The natural forest cover of nearby Kifu CFR and Namyoya CFR have been completely destroyed and the areas have now reverted to plantation forests. The lack of knowledge and awareness of the total value of the goods and services provided by forest resources will obscure the ecological and social impact of the conversion of forests into other uses. Proper valuation of all goods and services provided by a forest can help us understand the extent to which those who benefit from the forest or its conversion also bear the associated management costs or opportunities foregone (Balmford et al., 2003; Balmford et al., 2002; Lette & de Boo 2002; Daily & Walker 2000; Montgomery et al 1999; Ando et al 1998;;; Pimentel et al 1997; and Costanza et al 1997;). Forests in general are complex ecosystems and generate a range of goods and services. For purposes of determining the magnitudes of net benefits lost due to conversion of a forest to other development options, the total economic value (TEV) approach was chosen as the most comprehensive. The TEV (Figure 5) endeavours to identify and formalise the various economic benefits The Economic Valuation of the Proposed Degazettement of Mabira CFR | 2011 31
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