Au Cameroun, les dispositions du décret nº 76-166 du 27 avril 1976 fixant les conditions et modalités de gestion du domaine national exigent que tout utilisateur du domaine national, que ce soit en tant que concessionnaire ou locataire, verse une redevance annuelle. Ces recettes sont alors...

Public concerns about the environmental credentials of timber products have led to the introduction of procurement policies that add criteria other than price into the decision-making process. This demand-driven initiative alongside the importance of European markets for timber exports have...

"Since May 95, a CIRAD project has attempted to achieve a monetary valuation of all nutritious NTFP extracted by a rural village population in the East Cameroon. The village of Goute, where the survey is being achieved, is surrounded by a tropical moist forest. A logging company is established...

During the last decade, in Central Africa, timber volume of the artisanal chainsaw milling (CSM) sector, mainly for domestic markets, has exceeded that processed by the export-oriented industrial sector. However, due to lack of legal alternatives, CSM is largely an informal activity. We rely on...

Summary Community-based forest management has been promoted widely to enable local communities capture the value of the forests they inhabit. Most community forests have focused on non-timber forest products. In Cameroon, the 1994 Forest Law introduced community forestry with a strong emphasis...

The concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) has a pivotal role for both the Cameroonian legal framework and market-based instruments such as forest certification. We assess the different impacts on timber harvesting of the forest legal framework as compared to the adoption of forest...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) has emerged as an important carbon governance mechanism. However, forest governance is weak in most REDD+ countries, which undermines efforts to establish REDD+. This study analyses the factors that enable national REDD+...