Abstract
Forests and forest products have a high monetary and nonmonetary value in Uganda. Over 90% of total energy resources used in the country is derived from fuelwood. Forests offer provisioning ecosystem services which include wood products, non-timber forest products such as honey, medicinal plants and raw materials for small industry, amongst others. Forests also provide regulatory ecosystem services such as soil protection, maintenance of the hydrological cycle and sequestration of greenhouse gases.
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The study to determine the economic value of forest resources in Uganda and their contribution to the national economy was carried out between October 2010 and May 2011 under the supervision of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) with support from the World Bank and national stakeholders including the National Forestry Authority (NFA), Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), the National Planning Authority (NPA) and Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), while ENR Africa Associates provided technical expertise.
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USD = Ushs 1,822.48 and 2,308.60, respectively, for 2005 and 2010 (BoU 2005, 2010). Total value of forest area actually declined by a small fraction of the observed reduction of about 28% of the total value of forested land. This was due to the fall in exchange rate by 20% between 2005 and 2010 whereas forested area declined by 8%.
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Masiga, M., Muramira, E., Kaggwa, R. (2013). Contribution of Uganda’s Forestry Sub-sector to the National Economy: Natural Resource Accounting Approach. In: Hassan, R., Mungatana, E. (eds) Implementing Environmental Accounts. Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5323-5_6
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