National Analysis of Trade-Related Instruments Influencing Trade in African cherry (Prunus africana) and the African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus): Applications and Impacts on Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Forest Management in Cameroon.
Prepared for The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Non-Wood Forest Products Programme
By
Tieguhong Julius Chupezi14 and Ousseynou Ndoye15
Under the supervision of
Sven Walter16
November 2004
ASSOFOMI Association of Oku Forest Resources management Institutions
ASSOKOFOMI Association of Kom Forest Management Institutions
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
CIFOR Centre for International Forestry Research
CIG Common Initiative Group
CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild Fauna & Flora
DFAP Department of Wildlife and Protected Areas in MINEF
DRC Democratic Republic of Congo
EU European Union
FAO Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
FCFA Franc de la Confederation Française Africaine
FMI Forest Management Institutions
FUG Forest User Groups
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GoC Government of Cameroon
ICRAF World Agroforestry Centre (formerly International Centre for Research in Agroforestry.
LBZG Limbe Botanical and Zoological Gardens
LNP Lobeke National Park
NWFP Non-wood forest products
MEA Multilateral Environmental Agreement
MINEF Ministry of Environment and Forestry
MOCAP Mount Cameroon Prunus Management Common Initiative Group
MT Mount Cameroon
NGO Non-governmental organization
NPP Norway Partnership Programme
SFM Sustainable Forest Management
UK United Kingdom
USA United States of America
US$ United States of America Dollar
WPT World Parrot Trust
WWF World Wide Fund for Nature
14 Center for International Forestry Reseasrch (CIFOR), Regional Office for Central and West Africa, BP 2008, Messa, Yaounde-Cameroon. Email:
[email protected]. Tel: +237 2237522. Fax:237 2237437
15 Center for International Forestry Reseasrch (CIFOR), Regional Office for Central and West Africa, BP 2008, Messa, Yaounde-Cameroon. Email:
[email protected]. Tel: +237 2237522. Fax:237 2237437
16 FAO, Forest Products Division, Non-wood Forest Products Programme, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy, www.fao.org.
