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Title:Nigeria: Illegal Logging and Forest Women's Resistance
Author:Johnson, Christiana O.
Year:2003
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:30
Issue:95
Pages:156-162
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:popular participation
resistance
women
deforestation
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Women's Issues
Politics and Government
agriculture
Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights
economics
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240308370
Abstract:This briefing examines the question of whether community forestry in Cross River State (Nigeria) is in part a donor-facilitated 'mask' that conceals 'real' economic interests at work: the political elite's personal and government financial gain through deforestation at the expense of the environment and the forest-dependent livelihoods of the poor rural majority. Is the opposition - largely involving village youth and latterly women with some elite support - the face of a popular cross-class/ethnic group resistance to the destruction by global capital and Nigerian allies of local natural resources, forest-dependent livelihoods and human resources? The author uses her grassroots experience of NGO engagement in community forestry for the conservation of biodiversity and poor people's forest-dependent livelihoods to explore the structural contradiction between 'aid' and commercial arms of the 'global State'. In conclusion, she stresses the importance of a new approach to sustainable forestry - one which abandons the participatory practice of 'community forestry management' by NGOs in partnership with local literate elites, and which opts rather for a more truly participatory and radical two-pronged strategy of mobilizing village youth and women as well as lobbying and advocacy at the State, Federal and international levels. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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