Description
This excellent report reviews the forest sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo in early 2006. It analyses reforms undertaken since 2002 and it recommends priorities for the upcoming four to five years.
It highlights the nature of the Congolese forest as a public good, with critical values for the global environment and for millions of forest-dependent people, who are among the poorest in the world. It also looks at the legacy of mismanagement that plagued these forests in 2002, and at the tensions induced by the post-conflict recovery.
The report highlights the risk that forests will continue to be misappropriated to serve rent-seeking interests, and that forest dwellers, the national community and the environment will continue to lose out as the country enters into peace. Against this backdrop, the report focuses on issues that may cause irreversible damage to the public and to the environment, or erode future benefits. It also shows the risk of inaction.
Information
- Author(s)
- Debroux, L., Hart, T., Kaimowitz, D., Karsenty, A. and Topa, G.
- Publisher
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
- Place published
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Pages
- 82
