People’s Voices on the Sustainable Forest Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Since the early 2000s, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been conducting a reform of its forestry sector with the publication of The Forest Code (2002). The implementation of this law, which aims to assure the participation of all stakeholders, has been evolving slowly since then. The present res...
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| description | Since the early 2000s, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been conducting a reform of its forestry sector with the publication of The Forest Code (2002). The implementation of this law, which aims to assure the participation of all stakeholders, has been evolving slowly since then. The present research aims to evaluate the knowledge local communities and indigenous people detain over the ongoing reform, and the expectations they created when negotiations over the implementation of industrial harvesting activities in their traditional territories began. By interviewing local people, we came to understand that insufficient knowledge regardin the law gathers with a lack of concern towards ecological or environmental matters and with the need of seeing basic needs satisfied; all this in a context in which different stakeholders’ responsibilities and negotiational terms are often misunderstood. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c5df642cf89347658f0e9b17e611fe7f2024-02-02T14:56:37ZengUniversity of Hradec KrálovéModern Africa2336-32742570-75582021-10-019110.26806/modafr.v9i1.299People’s Voices on the Sustainable Forest Reform in the Democratic Republic of CongoFilomena Amaral0João Simão1Universidade AbertaUniversidade Aberta, Portugal and CAPP – Centre for Public Administration and Public Policies, ISCSP, Universidade de LisboaSince the early 2000s, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been conducting a reform of its forestry sector with the publication of The Forest Code (2002). The implementation of this law, which aims to assure the participation of all stakeholders, has been evolving slowly since then. The present research aims to evaluate the knowledge local communities and indigenous people detain over the ongoing reform, and the expectations they created when negotiations over the implementation of industrial harvesting activities in their traditional territories began. By interviewing local people, we came to understand that insufficient knowledge regardin the law gathers with a lack of concern towards ecological or environmental matters and with the need of seeing basic needs satisfied; all this in a context in which different stakeholders’ responsibilities and negotiational terms are often misunderstood.http://edu.uhk.cz/africa/index.php/ModAfr/article/view/299 |
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| title | People’s Voices on the Sustainable Forest Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
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