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Registros recuperados: 22 | |
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Ngobo, Martine; IITA; m.ngobo@cgiar.org; McDonald, Morag; University of Wales, Bangor; mamcd@bangor.ac.uk; Weise, Stephan; ; s.weise@cgiar.org. |
In the humid forest regions of southern Cameroon in central Africa, sectoral and macroeconomic policy reforms introduced in the late 1980s have led to intensified land use, which in turn has resulted in, among other environmental consequences, shortened fallow systems dominated by the Asteraceae shrub, Chromolaena odorata (L.) King and Robinson, rather than by secondary forest species. A trial was established to determine the effect of shortened fallow duration and invasion by C. odorata on the weed flora in subsequent mixed food cropping systems. Plots were established in cleared 5- to 7-year-old fallow fields in which the vegetation was either dominated by C. odorata or not, and in which the dominant fallow vegetation in the previous... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: CVA; Cameroon; Chromolaena odorata; Fallow; Weeds. |
Ano: 2004 |
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Cameroonian community forests were designed and implemented to meet the general objectives of forest management decentralization for democratic and community management. The spread of management conflicts all over the country has shown that these broad expectations have not been met. We describe conflicts occurring in 20 community forests by types of actors and processes involved. We argue that a number of external (community vs. external actors) and internal (intra-community) conflicts are part of the causes blocking the expected outcome of Cameroonian community forests, fostering bad governance and loss of confidence. Rent appropriation and control of forest resources appear as systemic or generalized conflicts. While community forest support projects... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Cameroon; Common pool resources management; Community forests; Network analysis; Social conflicts. |
Ano: 2011 |
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Cerutti, Paolo Omar; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia; p.cerutti@cgiar.org; Nasi, Robert; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia; r.nasi@cgiar.org; Tacconi, Luca; Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University; luca.tacconi@anu.edu.au. |
One of the main objectives of the 1994 Cameroonian forestry law is to improve the management of production forests by including minimum safeguards for sustainability into compulsory forest management plans. As of 2007, about 3.5 million hectares (60%) of the productive forests are harvested following the prescriptions of 49 approved management plans. The development and implementation of these forest management plans has been interpreted by several international organizations as long awaited evidence that sustainable management is applied to production forests in Cameroon. Recent reviews of some plans have concluded, however, that their quality was inadequate. This paper aims at taking these few analyses further by assessing the actual impacts that... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Cameroon; Certification; Law enforcement; Sustainable forest management. |
Ano: 2008 |
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Winter, A.J. de. |
As presently used, the helicarionoid genus Thapsia Albers, 1860 embraces a large, heterogeneous assemblage of species. As a first step in the revision of this group of taxa, the genus Thapsia (type species Helix troglodytes Morelet, 1848) is redefined anatomically and conchologically. In the absence of alcohol-preserved material of T. troglodytes, Thapsia ebimimbangana spec. nov. from Cameroon and T. wieringai spec. nov. from Gabon are described to characterize the soft parts morphology of Thapsia. Three new genera are introduced, viz. Saphtia gen. nov. (type species S. granulosa spec. nov.), Pseudosaphtia gen. nov. (type species P. brunnea spec. nov.) and Vanmolia gen. nov. (type species Thapsia sjoestedti d’Ailly, 1896). A second species of Saphtia, S.... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Cameroon; Côte d'Ivoire; Gabon; Africa; Gastropoda; Taxonomy; Land snails; Helicarionoidea; Thapsia; Saphtia; Pseudosaphtia; Vanmolia; Urocyclidae; 42.73. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/273964 |
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Breteler, F.J.; Wieringa, J.J.. |
The amphi-atlantic genus Mendoncia of the Acanthaceae counts c. 80 species. In tropical Africa it is represented by 14 species, eight in continental Africa and six in Madagascar. The remaining species occur in tropical America. The new species Mendoncia camerounensis and M. rabiensis are described and illustrated. Mendoncia floribunda is resurrected, fully described, and illustrated as well. Mendoncia iodioides, reduced to a variety of M. phytocrenoides in the Flore du Gabon, is restored as a distinct species. The isolated western population of Mendoncia gilgiana is recognised as a new subspecies. The conservation status of all species is assessed. Only a few of them are classified as Least Concern, the others as ranging from Critically Endangered to... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Cameroon; Gabon; Key; Mendoncia; New species; New subspecies; Taxonomy. |
Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/655988 |
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Bruggen, A.C. van; Winter, A.J. de. |
Micractaeon kakamegaensis Verdcourt, 1993 (type loc. Kenya, Kakamega Forest), is a synonym of Pseudopeas koptawelilense Germain, 1934 (type loc. Kenya, Mt. Elgon); the proper name is therefore Micractaeon koptawelilensis (Germain, 1934). New anatomical data are supplied, more or less confirming classification in the family Ferussaciidae. The shell is subject to some considerable variation in size, shape and sculpture. The species appears to be widely distributed in various types of forest in tropical Africa (Ghana, Cameroon, eastern and south-eastern Zaïre, Kenya, Malawi, and eastern Zambia); hypsometrical distribution is generally from c. 950 m to c. 2300 m, although in Ghana it has been collected at altitudes of between < 250 and c. 700 m. |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Gastropoda; Pulmonata; Ferussaciidae; Micractaeon; Africa; Ghana; Cameroon; Zaïre; Kenya; Zambia; Mala?i; Taxonomy; Distribution; 42.73. |
Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319133 |
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Balgah, Roland Azibo; Buchenrieder, Gertrud. |
Increasing occurrence of devastating natural shocks has stimulated research interest in the economics of natural disasters. Much of this scholarly work concentrates on effects of shocks on poverty, risk and vulnerability, and very little on understanding the effects of natural shocks on risk behavior. Referring to a 25 year-old disaster, we use unique survey data and experiment results from two disaster affected communities in rural Cameroon to test two hypotheses: (1) Natural shocks affect long term risk behavior; and (2) self-relocation into risk-prone areas is an explicit demonstration of risk taking. The results reveal differentiated risk behavior in self-relocated and state-resettled households, with the former taking higher risks compared to... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Shocks; Risk behavior; Experiment; Cameroon; Risk and Uncertainty. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114215 |
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Molua, Ernest L.. |
This paper examines the effect of changes in climatic averages on agricultural production at the national level in Cameroon. The empirical results reveal that Cameroon’s agriculture is influenced by climate variables. The economic value of the projected output in 2050 ranges from USD3.5 billion (41% less than the 1961–2001 mean value at 2.5oC increase in temperature and 8.5% increase in precipitation) to US$ 7.1 billion (18.5% greater than the 1961–2001 mean, for a 1.5°C increase in temperature and a 15% increase in precipitation). A 3.5% increase in temperature associated with a 4.5% increase in precipitation in the absence of irrigation facilities would be detrimental to Cameroon’s agriculture, leading to a loss of almost 46.7% in output value. This... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Cameroon; Agriculture; Climate variation; Global warming; Econometric methods; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; O3; Q10; Q20. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56967 |
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Registros recuperados: 22 | |
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