Browsing by Author "Lescuyer, Guillaume"

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Controlling Illegal Logging in Domestic and International Markets by Harnessing Multi-level Governance Opportunities
(2012) Kishor, Nalin; Lescuyer, Guillaume
"Illegal logging is perceived to pose significant obstacles to the achievement of sustainable management of forests in the tropics. Equally importantly, it gives rise to or supports other undesirable outcomes--networks of corruption, generating significant volumes of 'black' money and fuelling speculation, crime, or trafficking. However, illegal logging of tropical timber is not homogeneous and its characteristics depend, among others, on the supplying markets, at the national or the international scales. Available approaches to reduce illegal logging, at different levels of governance, in the producing and consuming countries are reviewed and their potential contribution is assessed."
Logging Concessions and Local Livelihoods in Cameroon: From Indifference to Alliance?
(2012) Lescuyer, Guillaume; Mvond, Samuel Assembe; Essoungou, Julienne Nadège; Toison, Vincent; Trébuchon, Jean-François; Fauvet, Nicolas
"Sustainable forest management gives the opportunity to better integrate the way local populations use their customary 'village terroirs' in the logging activities. This requirement is explicitly stated in all forest laws of the Congo Basin countries but its implementation on the field remains under documented. In Cameroon, 30 forest management plans (FMP) for logging concessions have been reviewed to assess how they effectively include customary use rights. The integration of use rights into the FMPs is heterogeneous but always with very low enforcement. The weak influence of the FMP application on local practices is confirmed with an empirical survey that shows that natural, financial, and physical capitals in two villages of the eastern region of Cameroon have been little affected by the adjoining logging concession over the latest 13 years. Extrasector policies such as agriculture, road infrastructure, techniques, and land tenure are the real drivers of socioeconomic change at the local scale. Their impacts are facilitated by the presence of the logging concessions, which can contribute indirectly to improve local livelihoods."
Monetary Valuation of the Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs): Does it Contribute to Determine a Sustainable Management of Those Resources?
(1996) Lescuyer, Guillaume
"Since May 95, a CIRAD project has attempted to achieve a monetary valuation of all nutritious NTFP extracted by a rural village population in the East Cameroon. The village of Goute, where the survey is being achieved, is surrounded by a tropical moist forest. A logging company is established in the area too and can, at any time, exploit this ecosystem. The Cost-Benefit Analysis is an usual means of resolving conflicts between opposite users The purpose of this work is to give an economic value to the NTFP used by the Goute inhabitants and to show that non-marketed natural resources could be integrated into the economic decision making process about tropical forest. So far, more than 130 NTFP have been listed. "Three economic valuation techniques have been used for these forest products: first, we have resorted to local market prices, whenever they exist, for valuing a few natural commodities. Second, we have used the market price of the nutritious substitute of the non-marketed NTFP. Finally, when none of these prices was available, one can assess the NTFP value by knowing the time spent in forest for its collect by the gatherer. This field work will last one year and will end in next April, when the monetary results are complete. This survey will insist on the specific limits of each technique and will question reliability of such monetary results."