NEWS

    Workshop summaries

• e-Files: PDF Complete file : Bayanga (size 117 Kb)

• e-Files: PDF Complete file : Kribi (size 103 Kb)

• e-Files: PDF Complete file : Mambele (English, size 270 Kb)
  e-Files: PDF Complete file : Mambele (French, size 339 Kb);

• e-Files: PDF Complete file : Yokadouma (English, size 51 Kb);
  e-Files: PDF Complete file : Yokadouma (French, size 53 Kb)

    Some examples are available where the STELLA modelling language was used to build scenarios addressing tradeoffs between conservation and development.

• Exploring the impact of gold mining in SW Ghana

  In South-West Ghana, population pressure is very high and cocoa is the main cash crop. The landscape is a mosaic structure of some natural forest patches (mainly in the productive and non-productive forest reserves) surrounded by cocoa plantations often mixed with secondary forest and some fallow land. The most likely future scenario of change for this landscape would be the opening of a gold mine in the district (as there is in a neighbouring district). A model was build assuming a gold mine boom to occur in 9 years from now and its impact on forest cover and household income was simulated

  Download (PDF size 52 KB).

• Exploring the impact of better governance in SE Cameroon

  South-East Cameroon is a forest rich region with a relatively low population density. Timber extraction is the main economic activity and a 1994 decentralization law decides a share of the forest royalties paid to the government should flow back to the region for development. However, governance issues at the commune level made that the lump sum of this money didn’t reach the poor rural population. A model was built with local NGO’s for the South-East Cameroon landscape showing what could happen if good governance was adapted by the communes.

  English (PDF size 34 KB).

  French (PDF size 37 KB).