Forest Products, Livelihoods and Conservation

166 The woodcarving industry in Kenya ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author thanks the World Wide Fund for Nature and the United Nations E ...

Simon Kosgei Choge 167 Government of Kenya and UNICEF. 1990. Socio-economic profiles: Kwale and Kitui districts. Government Prin ...

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Chapter 10 Carved wooden drums and trade in Mpigi district, Uganda Patrick Omeja^1 , Joseph Obua^2 and Anthony B. Cunningham^3 A ...

170 Carved wooden drums and trade in Mpigi district, Uganda INTRODUCTION The wood carving industry in Uganda produces mainly mus ...

Patrick Omeja, Joseph Obua and Anthony B. Cunningham 171 Figure 1. Map of the case study area Sources: ESRI Data and Maps 2002 a ...

172 Carved wooden drums and trade in Mpigi district, Uganda and September to November, with a principal peak in April and a mino ...

Patrick Omeja, Joseph Obua and Anthony B. Cunningham 173 highly demanded by the drum makers. Demand for carved wooden drum frame ...

174 Carved wooden drums and trade in Mpigi district, Uganda In the late 1970s, the Ugandan government got involved in this busin ...

Patrick Omeja, Joseph Obua and Anthony B. Cunningham 175 Drum making has also provided gainful employment to local people, hence ...

176 Carved wooden drums and trade in Mpigi district, Uganda Generally the wood must be: easily workable, i.e., easy to hollow o ...

Patrick Omeja, Joseph Obua and Anthony B. Cunningham 177 Figure 2. Diagrammatic representation of the production–marketing chain ...

178 Carved wooden drums and trade in Mpigi district, Uganda Figure 3. The Republic of Uganda’s coat of arms includes a drum the ...

Patrick Omeja, Joseph Obua and Anthony B. Cunningham 179 CONSERVATION, DEVELOPMENT IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS This study h ...

180 Carved wooden drums and trade in Mpigi district, Uganda There is also a need for improving the quality of existing drums and ...

Patrick Omeja, Joseph Obua and Anthony B. Cunningham 181 REFERENCES Hamilton, A.C. 1984 Deforestation in Uganda. Oxford Universi ...

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Chapter 11 Trading forest products in South- Eastern Zimbabwe: ecology, economics and politics of woodcarving Wavell Standa-Gund ...

184 Trading forest products in South-Eastern Zimbabwe many individuals have started selling some of these products (Arnold et al ...

Wavell Standa-Gunda and Oliver Braedt 185 This chapter is a compilation of the work on woodcarvings in south-eastern Zimbabwe, a ...