Integrating customary and statutory systems: The struggle to develop a legal and policy framework for NTFPs in Cameroon

Wild Product Governance: Finding Policies that Work for Non-Timber Forest Products

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 53-70

  Laird, Sarah A ^a   Ingram, Verina ^b   Awono, Abdon ^b   Ndoye, Ousseynou ^c   Sunderland, Terry ^b   Fotabong, Estherine Lisinge ^d   Nkuinkeu, Robert ^e  

^a People and Plants International   (United States)

^b Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Central Africa Regional Office   (Indonesia)

^c Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)   (Cameroon)

^d NEPAD ^*  (South Africa)

^e World Botanical Exchange and Services   (Cameroon)

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EID: 84870435327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849775199     Document Type: Chapter

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