Barrow, E. (2014). 300,000 Hectares Restored in Shinyanga, Tanzania: but what did it really take to achieve this restoration? S.A.P.I.EN.S, 7(2).
Barrow traces how woodland and pasture in Shinyanga, fully degraded by 1985, recovered across roughly 300,000 hectares by 2004 through the revival of ngitili, Sukuma dry-season fodder reserves, under the government’s HASHI program. He attributes the result chiefly to supportive policy, decentralized and participatory governance, attention to local needs and benefits, respect for traditional knowledge and institutions, and individual champions, and concludes that local ownership was the key condition, with monitoring needed after restoration. The wiki cites it as the clearest African case of restoration at scale driven by community institutions backed by land law. (The title in the journal uses a dash before “but”; it is rendered with a colon here.)