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The role of cocoa agroforestry in rural and community forestry in southern Cameroon

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Title The role of cocoa agroforestry in rural and community forestry in southern Cameroon
 
Creator Sonwa, D.J.
Weise, S.F.
Tchatat, M.
Nkongmeneck, B.A.
Ndoye, O.
Gockowski, J.
 
Subject cocoa (plant)
agroforestry
community forestry
land management
community involvement
non-timber forest products
projects
 
Description Over 70 years of familiarity with cocoa agroforests enables farmers of southern Cameroon to obtain food, medicinal plants and income from the ecosystem. Since 1994, social forestry activities in Cameroon have focused primarily on the idea of community forests. This approach is likely to encounter problems inherent in the way that administration works and in the structure of the communities. The ban on individuals exploiting non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and timber from community forests for profit increases the appeal of "private" land (such as cocoa agroforests). This paper argues that the objectives of the community forestry programme could partially be met through the good management of cocoa agroforests. This paper recommends that: 1. community forestry projects be designed to form part of a general land management concept which includes cocoa agroforests; 2. NTFPs be domesticated in cocoa agroforests to reduce pressure on the forest and 3. domestication projects take account of the intra- and inter-specific diversity of forests in the zone.
 
Date 2001
2012-06-04T09:06:34Z
2012-06-04T09:06:34Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Sonwa, D.J., Weise, S.F., Tchatat, M., Nkongmeneck, A.B., Ndoye, O., Gockowski, J. 2001. The role of cocoa agroforestry in rural and community forestry in southern Cameroon . Rural Development Forestry Network (25g) :1-10.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18534
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1060
 
Language en
 
Format p. 1-10
 
Source Rural Development Forestry Network