Africa
The strategies and methodologies in current practice aimed at achieving sustainable, participatory conservation are inadequately developed, and their implications are poorly understood by policy makers, managers and communities among other user groups. Possibilities of conflict and jurisdictional overlap exist. Institutional arrangements and policy instruments that facilitate the alleviation...
How enacting innovative and equitable laws and policies concerning community-based forest management can help local forest-dependent communities ensure that their interests are fairly considered in forest planning and management decisions.
Interest in and experience with sustainable community-based forest management (CBFM) has increased markedly during the past...
At the beginning of the new millennium Africa is characterized by two interrelated features: rising poverty levels and deepening environmental degradation. Africa is the poorest region of the world. It has the largest share of people living on less than US $1 per day. Almost 40% of the people in Africa live below the poverty line. At least one-third of Africa’s population is...
Based on several examples from West, Central and Eastern-Southern Africa, this paper discusses issues pertaining to the '4Rs' framework, an analytical framework which assesses local stakeholders' roles and resilience in relation to forest resource use and management via the balance/imbalance of their respective Rights, Responsibilities, Revenues/ Returns and Relationships (the '4Rs'). Rights...
The Eastern Arc Mountains form a chain of some of Africa's oldest peaks from southeastern Kenya through Tanzania. Their proximity to the Indian Ocean and the prevailing winds results in high rainfall when compared to surrounding areas. Because of the moist conditions in comparison to the surrounding areas, the chain and its montane, submontane, and lowland forests are noted for their high...
Because of dominant shifting agriculture practices, local ecological knowledge and traditional practice in mountain regions in Madagascar have long been seen as obstacles to development. Now, they are increasingly recognised as offering solutions to socio-ecological transformations constrained by rapid changes of the cultural, socio-economic and socio-political context. Instead of a passive...
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