From exclusion to participation: Turning Senegal's forestry policy around?

From exclusion to participation: Turning Senegal's forestry policy around?

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Article ID: iaor20071331
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 23
Issue: 9
Start Page Number: 1587
End Page Number: 1599
Publication Date: Sep 1995
Journal: World Development
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Keywords: developing countries
Abstract:

A century of centralized forestry policies has excluded Senegal's forest villagers from charcoal production and marketing. Policies have given access to marketing and labor opportunities to urban based merchants who hire Guinean migrant laborers. While forest villagers neither produce nor consume charcoal, commercial production is cutting forests on which villagers rely. In 1993, progressive forestry agents ushered in a new ‘participatory’ forestry code. But, this new policy may not be equitable nor beneficial, and it risks adding control over village labor (for forest management) to the long list of Forest Service controls. Locally accountable representation, local decision-making powers and simple local management enabling policies could diminish these risks.

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