Les réseaux illégaux du pillage

Horst, Greg Hiemstra-van der; Munro, Paul; Batterbury, Simon

doi:10.3917/ecopo.042.0047

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“…The transformations produced by the civil war and its aftermath have considerably changed the rules of the game with respect to forest industry and governance but in ways that have raised the concerns and ire of central regulators. Importantly, as the Forestry Division continues to work toward the re-centralization of control, it is increasingly supported both technically and financially by the international community via a range of initiatives tied to the broader Global Forest Governance (GFG) regime (Hiemstra-van der Horst et al 2011). As progress is made toward implementation of national-level programs under the United Nations' Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation UN-REDD+, the European Unions' Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (EU-FLEGT) program, and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) (although the last has not yet been extended to the forestry sector in Sierra Leone as it has elsewhere, such as in Liberia) it is almost certain that the monitoring and regulatory capacity of the Division will be considerably strengthened (indeed this is a key pre-requisite for participation in either of the first two initiatives which are already in development).…”

Section: Conclusion: the Roads Aheadmentioning

confidence: 99%

Breaks with the Past: Conflict, Displacement, Resettlement and the Evolution of Forest Socio-Ecologies in Sierra Leone

2016

African Frontiers

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In contrast to media fixation on the physical violence of recent West African conflicts, scholars have emphasized the lasting effects of massive population displacements. In Sierra Leone, for example, roughly 2 million of a total 3.8 million people had to migrate internally and several hundred thousand more fled to neighboring countries. As many have noted, both the experiences of those who were displaced and later returned home, as well as the dramatic shifts in population geography caused by those who did not, have had considerable impacts on important social issues including ethnic relations, identity formation, (macro)economic patterns and medical services provision. What remain less well understood, however, are the effects of these disruptions and reconfigurations on rural livelihoods and, by extension, on the (re) production of human-environmental relationships across broad swathes of landscape. These are of critical importance to processes of post-war stabilization and reconstruction, since most of Africa's mainly agrarian populations rely almost entirely on the productivity of their immediate landscapes for subsistence and small-scale commercial production. Focusing on Sierra Leone, in this chapter we draw on extensive field data to describe how rural residents' responses to both the vagaries of intense and chaotic conflict as well as the unstable conditions of peacebuilding have produced a considerable transformation of people-forest relationships across the country.1 Funding for this research was provided by the European Union and the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) through the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) support program, as well as the Promoting Agriculture, Governance and the Environment (PAGE) program sponsored by USAID, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.2 This term is used by Danny Hoffman (2011) to illustrate the close connections between the broader political economies of the individual Liberian and Sierra Leone civil wars.

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Section: Conclusion: the Roads Aheadmentioning

confidence: 99%