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

Conservation and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 173-181

  Oyono, Phil René ^a   Biyong, Martin Blaise ^b   Samba, Serge Kombo ^c  

^a Africa Program   (United States)

^b Centre Pour le Développement Local Alternatif CEDLA   (Cameroon)

^c Société Forestiére Industrielle de la Lokoundjé   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

common property; community forestry; household level; hypotheses; livelihoods; local institutional conditions; mixed outcomes; poverty alleviation; rights based reforms; rural Cameroon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863766293     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.97489     Document Type: Article

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