In a difficult political economy, marked notably by a multifaceted crisis, Cameroon, like many other African countries, launched the restructuring of the policy and legal framework that governed the management of forest until the mid-1990s. Given the deep conflict of discourse surrounding the iss...
Oyono, P.R.
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[New niches of community rights to forests in Cameroon: tenure reform, decentralization category or something else?]
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New niches of community rights to forests in Cameroon: tenure reform, decentralization category or something else?
The Ottotomo Forest Reserve in the Central Province of Cameroon is one of the protected areas in the country where several management strategies have been tested with varying degrees of success (e.g., the Tropical Shelterwood System (TSS) silvicultural technique was piloted in this forest more th...
Jum, C.N.
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Oyono, P.R.
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[Building collaboration through action research: the case of Ottotomo Forest Reserve in Cameroon]
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Building collaboration through action research: the case of Ottotomo Forest Reserve in Cameroon
When Germans colonized Cameroon in the nineteenth century, most of the ethnic groups living in the forest zone had already established territories. However, Germany then became the legal owner of land and forests. This brutal cohabitation of the new version of the state and customary systems of t...
Oyono, P.R.
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[The foundations of the conflit de langage over land and forest in southern Cameroon]
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The foundations of the conflit de langage over land and forest in southern Cameroon
Oyono, P.R.
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[The social and organizational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon's forest management model]
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The social and organizational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon's forest management model
One of the major innovations in Cameroon’s forest industry is the devolution of management authority to local communities. These communities have viewed this shift as a response to their age-old demands — and frustrations — regarding profits from commercial harvesting of forests on their land bas...
Oyono, P.R.
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[Acteurs locaux, representation et politics des eco-pouvoirs dans le Cameroun rural post-1994]
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Acteurs locaux, representation et politics des eco-pouvoirs dans le Cameroun rural post-1994
Oyono, P.R.
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Diaw, C.
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Efoua, S.
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Mala, W.A.
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Assembe-Mvondo, S.
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[Monitoring to ease forest management conflicts in Cameroon]
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Monitoring to ease forest management conflicts in Cameroon
Conducted in the East, South, and Northwest Provinces, this study aims to provide an explanation and understanding of the organizational and institutional infrastructure of decentralized management of Cameroon’s forest—also referred to as “local forest management”—and the mechanisms of the transf...
Oyono, P.R.
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[Institutional deficit, representation, and decentralized forest mangement in Cameroon: elements of natural resource sociology for social theory and public policy]
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Institutional deficit, representation, and decentralized forest mangement in Cameroon: elements of natural resource sociology for social theory and public policy
Theory informs us that decentralisation, a process through which powers, responsibilities and resources are devolved by the central state to lower territorial entities and regionally/locally elected bodies, increases efficiency, participation, equity, and environmental sustainability. Many types ...
Oyono, P.R.
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[One step forward, two steps back?: paradoxes of natural resources management decentralisation in Cameroon]
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One step forward, two steps back?: paradoxes of natural resources management decentralisation in Cameroon