Forest policy analysis praxis: Modelling the problem of forest loss in Cameroon

Institutional adaptive capacity and climate change response in the Congo Basin forests of Cameroon

“…Additionally, MINFOF and ANAFOR should have begun to implement recommended forest management practices that would enhance adaptation to the direct effects of climate change (Smith and Lenhart 1996;Robledo and Forner 2005;Seppälä et al 2009). Institutional weakness has been identified in other studies as a source of forest mismanagement in Cameroon (Oyono 2005;Mbatu 2009). …”

Capacité d’adaptation institutionnelle et réponse au changement climatique dans les forêts du Bassin du Congo au Cameroun

“…La faiblesse des institutions a été identifiée dans d'autres études comme une source de mauvaise gestion de la forêt au Cameroun (Oyono 2005;Mbatu 2009). …”

Deforestation in the Buea-Limbe and Bertoua regions in southern Cameroon (1984–2000): modernization, world-systems, and neo-Malthusian outlook

“…Given that the government of Cameroon paid little to no attention to consequences of the macroeconomic structural adjustment policies of the late 1980s and 1990s (Gbetnkom 2005;Mbatu 2009), future policy measures should aim at correcting these failed policies. For example, a comprehensive policy that limits the construction of roads through the forest should be enacted and enforced.…”

“…Accordingly, we argue that deforestation in the study areas reported in this article followed a wave of increased development activities in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Spurred by the oil boom during this period, the Buea-Limbe area (home to the only oil refinery in the country), witnessed increased forest clearing due to increase in roads and other infrastructural development projects (Mbatu 2009). Also, high international coffee and cocoa prices and favorable producer price policies in Cameroon during the 1970s and early 1980s encouraged forest clearings in the Bertoua area to plant coffee and cocoa (Gbetnkom 2005).…”

“…This complex relationship has been documented in human-environment literature. Among these are population growth and population density (Allan and Barnes 1985;Cropper and Griffiths 1994;Mather and Needle 2000;Geist and Lambin 2002;Carr et al 2005), wood extraction-commercial, fuelwood, charcoal production, polewood (Buschbacher 1990;Sedjo 1999;Ravenel and Granoff 2004), agricultural expansion-permanent cultivation, shifting cultivation, cattle ranching, colonization (Keys and McConnell 2005), policy and institutional factorseconomic development, property rights, credits, corruption, mismanagement (Gibson et al 2000;Mbatu 2009), Economic factors-market and special dynamics, economic structures, urbanization and industrialization (Barbier and Burgess 1996;Bhattarai and Hammig 2001;Geist and Lambin 2002;Barbier 2003), cultural factors-public attitudes, values and beliefs (Godoy et al 1997;Nepstad et al 2006).…”