Forest Policy, Governance and Trade

Session D-3: Governing for Improved Community Livelihoods

• Forest Governance Arrangements and Innovations Related To Forest And Tree-Based Livelihoods In Ghana Thomas F.G. Insaidoo

• Rethinking Benefit Sharing for Sustainability of Ghana's off-reserve timber resources W. K. Dumenu

• Forest management certification in African countries – state of the art of FSC certification, challenges and opportunities Marion Karmann

• Enhancing community livelihood opportunities: An analysis of small and medium forest based enterprises E.A. Obeng

• Governability assessment of forest resources in production forest regime of Ghana: Implication of law enforcement of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement Mercy Derkyi

• Translating REDD opportunities into improved community livelihoods: addressing the constraint of insecured tree tenure Emmanuel Marfo

Session D-1:Community-Based Resource Management

• Interactive governance: an approach to explore the governability of Ghana’s high forest zone Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen

• Management of Ghana’s Modified Taungya system (MTS): challenges and strategies for improvement Thomas F.G. Insaidoo

• Determinants of household decision to join Community Forest Associations: A case study from Kenya. Josephine K. Musyoki

• Changing Forests Management and Community Livelihoods Fortunes: Experiences from Participatory Forest Management in Kenya J. K. Kagombe

• Performance of existing local institutions in the management of mangrove forests in the Rufiji delta, Tanzania Rukia A. Kitula

 

Session D-6: Sustainable Development of Non Wood Forest Products for Rural Livelihood and Forest Conservation

• Increasing the service life of forest products in the tropics through non-pressure rural wood A. Oteng-Amoako

• Utilisations socio-économiques et état de la régénération de Securida calonge pedunculata Fres. au Burkina Faso Edith DABOUE

• Importance of forest products from Raffia palm forests (Rafia farinifera) and impacts of some harvesting methods on the natural regeneration in West regions of Cameroon Paul DONFACK

• Towards Innovative Processing and Sustainable Utilization of Bamboo Resources in Ghana in a Climatic Threatened Environment: The Technical Issues Stephen Lartey Tekpetey

Session D-4 Tenure and Gender Issues in Forest Management

• Still trying to kill two big birds with one stone? Contrasting an ill-fated groundnut scheme in the late colonial period with recent processes of large-scale land acquisition for biofuels in Ghana David Andrew Wardell

• Tenure and forest reliance in Ghana Beatrice Darko Obiri

• At the crossroad between small scale forestry and agriculture: tenure and trees management systems in the Non Permanent forest estate of Cameroon Valentina Robiglio

• Large-scale land acquisitions in East Africa: Civil society and collective action for securing rights to land and forests Esther Mwangi

• Gender issues and bush meat: Nutrition and Livelihoods of Rural and Urban Populations in the Congo Basin Robert Nasi

• Gender-differentiated vulnerability to climate variability and change in the Congo basin A.M. Tiani

Session D-2 Forest Policies and Sustainable Forest Management

• Forest policy, legislation and governance in the Mano river union member states: constraints in implementation Emmanuel K Alieu

• Farmers’ attitudes towards national legislation governing trees in Cameroon: impact on their on-farm tree planting decisions Foundjem-Tita D

• Public Perceptions and Socio-Economic Implications of the Forest Harvesting Ban in Kenya:Case Study of Maji Mazuri Region, Eldama Ravine, Kenya Kingiri Senelwa

• Sustainable forest management of Central Africa: with or without chainsaw milling? Guillaume Lescuyer

• Commercial chainsaw logging, corruption and livelihoods in Central Africa Paolo Cerutti

Session D-7 Forest Based Enterprises and Services

• Community-based Forest/Tree Producer and User Groups in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia – opportunities, challenges and capacity building potential Anders Roos /(Christine Nantonga)

• Characteristics of forestry landscapes that support beekeeping in Baringo County, Kenya Mercy Gichora

• Economic valuation of forest tree environmental service functions in Abeokuta metropolis, Nigeria ADEKUNLE, M.F

• Potential of NTFPs in Financial Valuation of Savannah Formation in Sudanian region Fifanou G. VODOUHE

• How can forest ecosystem services boost poverty alleviation policy? Case study of the fragile forest ecosystem of the Djoudj National Park in northern Senegal Njankoua Wandji D