Beyond the decade of policy and community euphoria: The state of livelihoods under new local rights to forest in rural Cameroon

Beyond the decade of policy and community euphoria: The state of livelihoods under new local rights to forest in rural Cameroon

This paper interrogates the state of livelihoods under the exercise of new community rights to forest in rural Cameroon. The assessment makes use of a set of livelihoods indicators. The granting and exercise of new community rights, namely, management rights and market rights, are not synonymous wit...

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Main Authors: Phil René Oyono, Martin Blaise Biyong, Serge Kombo Samba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2012-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
Subjects:
rural Cameroon
rights-based reforms
community forestry
livelihoods
local institutional conditions
hypotheses
mixed outcomes
household level
common property
poverty alleviation
Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2012;volume=10;issue=2;spage=173;epage=181;aulast=Oyono

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