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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Benefits to Forest Adjacent Communities in Kimondi and Masaita Forests in Nandi and Kericho County, Kenya\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Fredrick Otsieno, Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Forestry College, Box 8 Londiani, Nairobi, Kenya, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{sikukuf@yahoo.com}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Fredrick Otsieno}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Forestry College, Kenya}}}
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Kenya reviewed its forest law in 2005, in part to enhance community participation in Social forest management by enabling greater direct and indirect benefits to forest adjacent households as an incentive. Thus, this study was undertaken to compare benefits to forest adjacent households under the current and old Kenyan forest laws. Questionnaires were administered to 306 forest adjacent households to determine quantities and value of forest products extracted, their contribution to household welfare, and factors influencing their use of the forests.  Major direct benefits to households were firewood, cultivation, grazing/fodder, wood/timber, and medicinal herbs. Socio"=economic factors which positively influenced the value of household benefits from forests were household size, farm size and income of household head among others, while those which negatively influenced it were types of crops planted high cost of production and low income from livestock. Benefits enjoyed by households from the two forests were comparable, but benefits under the old legislation (Cap 385 of 1968) were higher than those under the Forests Act No 7 of 2005. The value annually extracted by households under the old law was USD 371 compared to USD 276 under the current Act.  The large difference mainly resulted from benefits in grazing (USD 35 versus USD 14), firewood (USD 189 versus USD 81), and cultivation on forest land (USD 59 versus USD 20). Lengthy and costly bureaucratic procedures were cited as major hindrance to household benefitting from forests, which is a disincentive to community participation, while this was a prime objective of the revised law. There is need to remove these barriers to make community participation in SFM more effective.}

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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Communities, forest acts, forest benefits, Kenya
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