Charcoal burners and cattle keepers have to find naw jobs or other land
In 2001, the German private company Global-Woods International AG signed a 49-year lese agreement to set up a commercial tree plantation in the Kikonda Forest Reserve in western Uganda. The project cover i2,i82 ha of goverment land. It describes itself as a commercial timber plantation which also generates carbon credits. Tree planting has caused many conflicts between the project owners and the local residents who use the land but have no title documents. A report prepared for the certification of the project is indicative for the approach the owners (and the auditing company) take towards the disputed use rights for the lend included in the plantation concession: " With the enforcement of the demarcation of the [forest reserve], illegal activities are steadily diminishing while charcoal burners and cattle keepers have to find new jobs or other land to continue their practices." The document the company had to prepare to register carbon credits states in the chapter on 'current land use and land tenure at the project site' that " currently, security guards employed by the project management patrol the area of the forest reserve constantly to stop illegal activities. These patrols also constantly remind the people of the area that the Forest Reserve may only be used for tree growing.