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| Title: | Promoting (Anti-) Social Forestry in Northern Nigeria |
| Author: | Cline-Cole, Reginald A. |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 74 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 515-536 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria Northern Nigeria |
| Subjects: | fuelwood forestry Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
| External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249708704279 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4796891A0954FBDCF0DA |
| Abstract: | In order to facilitate both the formulation of an energy policy and the design of a long-term strategy which accords proper priority to environmental protection and conservation in the drylands of northern Nigeria, Silviconsult Ltd., an international consultancy firm, was contracted to conduct a detailed study of the region's fuelwood demand and supply situation. The survey was based on a 0.2 percent household sample of an estimated regional population of some 23 million people. Information was gathered on energy use and consumption, fuel acquisition, fuelwood transport and exchange, and fuelwood production and tree planting. This article assesses those aspects of Silvicult's policy, programme and project recommendations which are based on the widespread current preference within natural resource management circles for increasing interaction between the State, private sector and local communities. In particular, it focuses on recommended initiatives which are premised on the existence or creation of an enabling legal/tenure/institutional framework founded on notions of decentralized, or participatory, forestry resource management. It argues that in their failure to problematize notions such as 'community' and 'participation', these recommendations contribute to safeguarding the hegemony of dominant forestry discourses and practices. Bibliogr., notes, sum. |
