In one of Africa’s fastest deforesting nations, community control over the land offers villages new income, infrastructure and dignity

Yusuph Juma can confidently drive his truck fully loaded with timber past the traffic police officers without being stopped or questioned of the origin and destination of the timber.

He is a licensed and recognised logger in Angai forest in the south east of Tanzania and has nothing to fear while taking his timber for sell.

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