Conservation concessions, as advocated by E. Niesten and R. Rice, suggest the paying revenues to populations and the State so that they may renounce income derived from forest exploitation. Apart from the questionable transformation of peasants as renters of conservation, serious questions arise...

In 1994, the Government of Cameroon introduced an array of forest policy reforms, both regulatory and market-based, to support a more organized, transparent, and sustainable system for accessing and using forest resources. This report describes how these reforms played out in the rainforests of...

International pressure related to deforestation in the context of climate change and national issues concerning the sustainability of cocoa production have become increasingly prominent on political and media agendas. In 2018, Côte d'Ivoire, the world's largest cocoa producer that has...

Market instruments proposed for withdrawing biodiversity-rich tropical forests from logging and turning them into conservation area, aim at acquiring land use rights not land ownership. If conservation easements and transferable development rights require enforced and widespread land private...

The market for purchasing environmental rights constitutes a management device that resorts to creating markets in which user-rights are exchanged without property transfer of land, which in fact constitutes the material support of such practices. The aim is hereby to assess the consequences of...

In 1994, the Government of Cameroon introduced an array of forest policy reforms, both regulatory and market-based, to support a more organized, transparent, and sustainable system for accessing and using forest resources. This report describes how these reforms played out in the rainforests of...

<alinea/> In southern countries, payments for environmental services (PES) to conserve biodiversity are expected to be scaled up in the context of the climate change-driven REDD mechanism, also called ?avoided deforestation?. Existing PES show that payments more often compensate for local opportunity...

Forests are ubiquitous in the Democratic Republic of Congo; they touch the cultural and economic life of most of the population and have enormous global environmental significance. After years of conflicts and mismanagement, reconstruction is key to improving living conditions and consolidating...

Reforms implemented to improve forest sector governance in Central Africa have yielded mixed results. There cannot be effective market-based sector regulation without the strict enforcement of a regulatory framework and a neutral administration. To improve governance, it would be more...