Forestry in a complex social and ecological setting

Tropenbos International Cameroon Programme

Programme closed in 2002

Publications | Projects

The Tropenbos Cameroon Programme (TCP) ran from 1994 till 2002. It was located at a logging concession in Southern Cameroon near the harbour city Kribi. This area is largely covered with forests and is used by native Bantus and Bakola (Pygmies) for shifting cultivation, cacao plantations and collection of forest produce. The TCP was mainly directed at the sustainable production of timber and other forest products, and included projects on:
  • Forest land inventory and evaluation
  • Economic, ecological and social aspects
  • Improved methods for forestry and indigenous land-use
  • Local people's participation in management

An overview of the 104 Publications from this programme is available online. The synthesis of all results is published in 'Sustainable management of rainforest in Cameroon' (Jonkers and Foahom, 2004). A short presentation of the TCP results can be found in the infosheet 'Promising blueprint for sustainable forest management in Cameroon' (PDF 228 KB).

Tropenbos also coordinated research activities for the adjacent Campo-Ma'an project, funded by the World Bank.

A special contact of TCP is with the adjacent Campo-Ma'an project, funded by the World Bank, in which Tropenbos acts as research coordinator.