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TBI Cameroon
The role of community institutions in the management
of NTFP in Cameroon
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| Objective: |
| Identification of
various direct actors and their use of different NTFP resources.
Who are exploiting which NTFP, in what ways and for what purposes
(i.e. home consumption, commercialisation, and other social
and economic purposes)?Identification of sets of rights to control,
have access to and exploit NTFP resources that these actors
assert and realise. How are such rights acquired, how is the
distribution of rights over the concerned actor groups, what
restrictions and obligations in regard of NTFP use do right
holders have, and how it changes and which institutional structure
or legal framework guarantees and protect these rights and harvest
regulations in normative theory and social practice? Special
attention will be given to the historical development of the
diversity of rights to control and to exploit NTFP resources.
Moreover, attention will be paid to the cultural and economic
value of the various NTFPs, both at the present as well as in
the past.What are the local perceptions on the efficacy of the
existing community based management institutions concerned and
the options to rehabilitate, adapt, strengthen these institutions
or create new regulating institutions?What are the implications
for new NTFP resource management strategies? |
| Output: |
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Actors in and types of NTFP exploitation, as well as indications
on the relative and absolute rate of utilisation, exploitation
and commercialisation have been determined.A clear overview
has been given of the local arrangements regulating access
to and control over NTFP resources.The relation between increasing
value, higher prices for produce, improves market access and
higher exploitation pressure on resources on the one hand
and changes in regulations and arrangements has been analysed.The
local perception on the strong and weak aspects of regulations
was analysed.Management recommendations were formulated.
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| Literature: |
- Berg, J. van den, van Dijk, J.F.W., Dkamela, G.P., Ebene
Onana, G.Y. and Ntendu, T.N.M. (). The role of community
institutions in the management of Non-Timber Forest Products
in south Cameroon
- Berg, J. van den, Dijk, H. van, Dkamela, G.P., Ebene,
Y. and Ntenwu, T. (2001). The role and dynamics of community
institutions in the management of NTFPs in Cameroon.
ETFRN News 32: 77-79
- Dkamela, G.P. (2001). Les institutions communautaires
de gestion des produits forestiers non-ligneux dans les
villages périphériques de la Réserve
de Biosphère du Dja. Tropenbos-Cameroon
Documents 7.
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| Status |
| Ended project: 1997-2000 |
| Partners |
Donors |
 Wageningen
University |
 Central
African Regional Program for the Environment |
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