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Commodity-Chain Analysis for the Capture and Trade in the African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus) in Cameroon

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dc.contributor.author Chupezi, Tieguhong Julius en_US
dc.contributor.author Ndoye, Ousseynou en_US
dc.contributor.author Mpele, Thierry Ontcha en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:35:08Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:35:08Z
dc.date.issued 2006 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-06-18 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-06-18 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1209
dc.description.abstract "This paper makes a commodity-chain analysis on the capture and trade of the African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) from Lobeke National Park area in the East Province of Cameroon. The African grey parrot has been noted as one of man's friendliest pets with popularity attributed to its intelligence, cognitive, communicative and extraordinary mimetic abilities. Worldwide, the African Grey Parrot is the third most commonly traded wild bird species. Being a CITES' Appendix II species, Cameroon's export quota of 12000 African grey parrots is worth some US$ 12 million in European markets. The Lobeke National Park area supplies 80% of the birds with seven stakeholders involved in the commodity-chain. These stakeholders earn differential amounts with total annual gross revenue. The trappers, government and licensees get just 0.1-0.18%, 1.6% and 0.6- 0.8% respectively of what the importers get. These statistics are indicative that very small proportion of the money generated through the African grey parrot commodity chain stays in the source country. This has major policy implications to strengthen the sector in terms of distributional equity and sustainable resource use." en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject parrots en_US
dc.subject commodification--theory en_US
dc.subject sustainability en_US
dc.subject price en_US
dc.title Commodity-Chain Analysis for the Capture and Trade in the African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus) in Cameroon en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region Africa en_US
dc.coverage.country Cameroon en_US
dc.subject.sector Theory en_US
dc.subject.sector Wildlife en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth June en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Survival of the Commons: Mounting Challenges and New Realities, the Eleventh Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 19-23, 2006 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Bali, Indonesia en_US
dc.submitter.email elsa_jin@yahoo.com en_US


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