A5033020136- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Forest Management and Policy
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Forest ecology and management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Mining and Resource Management
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Cloud Computing and Resource Management
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
Center for International Forestry Research
2011-2024
WWF Cameroon
2010-2024
World Resources Institute
2024
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
2002-2017
World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
2016
University of Bonn
2002-2008
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
2002-2007
Yahoo (United Kingdom)
2005
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
2002
Université de Yaoundé I
2002
The Central African region hosts the largest continuous tract of forest in Africa, regulating global climate while providing essential resources and livelihoods for millions people harbouring extensive biodiversity. Extractive industries, infrastructure development industrial agriculture have often been cited as major threats to these forests are expected increase. A regional collaborative effort has produced first systematically validated remote sensing assessment deforestation degradation...
Climate change presents additional challenges to a diverse country like Cameroon that shares the Congo Basin rainforest. Not only is population vulnerable direct effects of climate change, forest-dependent communities are also changing environmental policy may affect their access forest resources. Using qualitative approach data collection through semi-structured interviews and content analysis relevant documents, perception decision-makers within, response institutions state, private sector...
Climate-related risks to African agriculture are highly contextual. Climatic conditions changing in diverse agro-ecological environments throughout Africa, and populations being affected by, responding to, these changes. The paper describes how climate change mediated by multiple factors, ranging from the availability of physical resources through policy contexts role culture. Consequently, support adaptation needs be complemented with research that can generate contextual information inform...
Abstract This paper investigates and characterizes the control mechanisms of low-level circulation over west equatorial Africa (WEA) using four reanalysis datasets. Emphasis is placed on contribution divergent rotational to total flow. Additional focus made analyzing zonal wind component, in order gain insight into processes that variability westerlies (LLW) region. The results suggest differ north south 6°N. In north, LLW are primarily a flow forming part cyclonic driven by heat low West...
'Sustainable cocoa' has attracted considerable attention. However, stakeholders in cocoa development may differ their understanding of sustainable cocoa, interests and actions taken advancing cocoa. This article analyses sustainability at nested scales to what extent standards, policies projects address concerns contribute ecosystem services. The analysis is based on literature reviews key informant interviews Sulawesi (Indonesia), Ucayali (Peru) Centre Region (Cameroon). Producers all three...
Surveys and interviews were used to understand community resilience in forest-dependent communities facing climate change Cameroon.Surveys of 232 individuals showed a diversity formal informal institutions that relate most aspects rural life.Although direct activities related adaptation limited, the density membership local could increase community's adaptive capacity.Twenty-six semistructured also conducted with representatives diverse who had some responsibility for agriculture, forests,...
The African Union's Agenda 2063 and the Malabo Declaration recognize agricultural development as one of most effective means combating extreme poverty. Conservation Agriculture Practices (CAP) have been asserted to potential boost output, improve livelihood contribute conservation natural resources. This study thus seeks advance knowledge about Conversation by assessing factors determining adoption intensity CAP among Cameroon's smallholder farmers. Data collected from 351 farmers in South...
Nowadays, adaptation has become a key focus of the scientific and policy-making communities is major area discussion in multilateral climate change process. As projected to hit poorest hardest, it especially important for developing countries pay particular attention management natural resources agricultural activities. In most these such as Cameroon, forest can play role achieving broader goals. However, generally receives very little national development programme strategies policy...
The analysis of vulnerabilities can help answer where and how society best invest in vulnerability reduction. This study aimed at exploring adaptation strategies to climate change local communities Bukavu DR Congo. Participatory action research was used six villages from three collectivities around the Kahuzi Biega Park. Results showed that (a) perception depends on what people see feel about climate, (b) climate-related risks exacerbated existing problems created new combinations such as...
Abstract Background The vast majority of households in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend on wood energy—comprising firewood and charcoal—for their daily energetic needs. Such consumption trends are expected to remain a common feature SSA’s energy production supply chains, at least the short- medium-terms. Notwithstanding its importance, generally has low priority SSA national policies. However, use is often considered key driver unsustainable management negative environmental consequences...
In Cameroon, as in other countries of the Congo basin region, policy processes and activities related to climate change have been hitherto geared mostly towards mitigation questions, with limited concern about adaptation issues. However, increasing vulnerability Cameroon variability makes significant its national climate-change policy. Nonetheless, it remains a challenge make both occupy same space Cameroon. This paper builds partly on studies carried out two community forest carbon...
Tropical forests have a central role to play in new mechanism designed mitigate climate change, known as REDD+ (Reduced Emissions From Deforestation and Forest Degradation). Through semistructured interviews content analysis of relevant documents, the perceptions opportunities challenges institutions, who may be directly implicated or affected by its implementation are investigated. Research takes place three Central African countries, Cameroon, Republic, Democratic Republic Congo, which...