As forest products from Cameroon and DR Congo are commercialised, a value chain is created from harvesters, processors, and retailers to consumers worldwide. In contrast to dominant narratives focusing on regulations and customs, these chains are actually governed by dynamic, multiple arrangements regulating access to resources and markets. New institutions have been created, led by project-related civil society organisations and enterprises. These increasingly take on roles traditionally the reserve of governments. In some chains, the state performs its duties, in others not. Customary authorities, projects, non-government organisations and market institutions fill some voids. Often actors with little voice in formal governance create their own messy, bricolaged arrangements, and governance based on 'exclusiveness' produces some of the most sustainable chains and livelihoods in the long term. The different governance arrangements and combinations affect the livelihoods of those involved in chains, forests and their sustainability in different ways, both positively and negatively.
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- Mobilization & Strengthening of capacities of small & medium size enterprises involved in works on non-timber forest products in Central Africa
- Sustainable managing the wood energy & source in DRC (Makala Project)
- Establishment of A Forestry Research Network for ACP Countries
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
- European Commission (EC)
Source
International Forestry Review 19(Supplement 1): 152-169
Publication year
2017
ISSN
1465-5489
Authors
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Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jolien Schure
CIFOR Associate
Robert Nasi
Director General