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Macro-economics, markets and the humid forests of Cameroon, 1967-1997

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Title Macro-economics, markets and the humid forests of Cameroon, 1967-1997
 
Creator Ndoye, O.
Kaimowitz, D.
 
Subject agricultural policy
cocoa (plant)
deforestation
economic impact
environmental impact
fluctuation
structural adjustment
food crops
logging
markets
population growth
coffee
 
Description The paper analyses how macro-economic and agricultural policies, market fluctuations and demographic changes affected forests in the Humid Forest Zone of Cameroon in four periods between 1967 and 1997. For each period it examines how these variables influenced cocoa, coffee, food, and agro-industrial crop production and area, and logging. It concludes that government policies, market fluctuations and demographic changes all had a strong impact on forests. Pressure on forests increased after structural adjustment policies were initiated in the mid- 1980s. Malthusian reasoning alone cannot explain the level of deforestation and forest degradation in Cameroon.
 
Date 2000
2012-06-04T09:06:11Z
2012-06-04T09:06:11Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ndoye, O., Kaimowitz, D. 2000. Macro-economics, markets and the humid forests of Cameroon, 1967-1997 . Journal of Modern African Studies 38 (2) :225-253.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18200
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/708
 
Language en
 
Format p. 225-253
 
Source Journal of Modern African Studies