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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] |