Cameroon
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Field Notes | Voices from the Baka
11.23.11Colleagues from the World Bank Africa region worked with IUCN to document what is happening to a corner of the vast tropical forest in Cameroon, seen from the perspective of the Baka people. The 9-mn movie is embedded here.
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Knowledge | Lessons Learned from an Agro-Silvo-Pastoral Technology Transfer from Costa Rica to Cameroon
10.18.11A World Bank-supported pilot project, launched in January 2011, has demonstrated that several agrosilvopastoral technology innovations and systems developed and/or tested in Central America can be adapted to the Tugi (Gutah) Hills in the North West Region of Cameroon, resulting in the rehabilitation of degraded pasture lands, improved livestock productivity, increased income of the rural communities and reduced risk and vulnerability to climate change. A new PROFOR activty aims to document and disseminate the lessons from that project.
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Knowledge | Economic Growth and Drivers of Deforestation in the Congo Basin
09.14.11Though the deforestation rates in the Congo Basin countries have historically been low, the trend is likely to change dramatically due to the combination of many different factors. PROFOR supported the development of robust analytical tools to help these countries make better choices and negotiate in the international REDD+ arena.
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Knowledge | Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit
08.01.10An estimated 1.2 billion people rely on forests for some part of their livelihoods. However, the importance of forests is often overlooked in national development processes such as poverty reduction strategies due to inadequate evidence documenting how forests sustain the poor. To build better knowledge on this critical relationship, PROFOR developed a “Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit” to facilitate relevant data collection and analysis.
