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Abstract
This paper1 investigates the determinants and impact of agroforestry for smallholders in
rural Tanzania. Two questions are addressed: (1) Do these factors drive farmers to grow
trees? (2) To what extent does tree cultivation contribute to income generation of
households? The empirical results show households with higher environmental
awareness, property rights, and less yield losses cultivate more trees per acre. Also the
future evaluation plays an important significant role. Here, suitable measures to increase
future expectations and environmental awareness need to be developed to increase tree
cultivation. However, the impact assessment shows that only trees up to a certain income
level influence income positively. For more prosperous households other income sources
such as cash crop production play a more important role; here trees per acre influence the
income per capita negatively. This leads to the conclusion that trees may be more
important for the poorer households compared to the more prosperous ones.