Management conflicts in cameroonian community forests

Ezzine de Blas Driss, Ruiz Pérez Manuel, Vermeulen Cédric. 2011. Management conflicts in cameroonian community forests. Ecology and Society, 16 (1):8, 19 p.

Url - éditeur : https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/

Quartile : Q1, Sujet : ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES / Quartile : Q2, Sujet : ECOLOGY

Résumé : Cameroonian community forests were designed and implemented to meet the general objectives of forest management decentralization for democratic and community management. The spread of management conflicts all over the country has shown that these broad expectations have not been met. We describe conflicts occurring in 20 community forests by types of actors and processes involved. We argue that a number of external (community vs. external actors) and internal (intra-community) conflicts are part of the causes blocking the expected outcome of Cameroonian community forests, fostering bad governance and loss of confidence. Rent appropriation and control of forest resources appear as systemic or generalized conflicts. While community forest support projects have tended to focus on capacity building activities, less direct attention has been given to these systemic problems. We conclude that some factors like appropriate leadership, and spending of logging receipts on collective benefits (direct and indirect) are needed to minimize conflicts. Government and development agencies should concentrate efforts on designing concrete tools for improving financial transparency while privileging communities with credible leaders.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : forêt collective

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Cameroun

Classification Agris : K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales
E50 - Sociologie rurale

Champ stratégique Cirad : Axe 6 (2005-2013) - Agriculture, environnement, nature et sociétés

Auteurs et affiliations

• Ezzine de Blas Driss, CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (FRA)
• Ruiz Pérez Manuel, UAM (ESP)
• Vermeulen Cédric, Université de Liège (BEL)

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/558376/)

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