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| Title
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Elaboration of a local convention for natural resource management
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| Subtitle
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A case from the Bam region, Burkina Faso
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| Author
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Dorlöchter-Sulser, S., Kirsch-Jung, K. P., Sulser, M.
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| Editor or Organisation
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GIZ, PATECORE
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| Year
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1998
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| Keywords
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forestry, participation, resource management
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| Country
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Burkina Faso
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| Type
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| Language
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English
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| Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION 1
THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK 4
The Forest Code 4
The traditional land tenure regime 6
THE PROCESS OF FORMULATING A LOCAL CODE 7
Taking the initiative 7
The approach adopted 7
Identifying the parties concerned 10
Involving the state technical services 11
Information meeting 11
Participatory diagnoses 12
Dialogue with the forestry service 18
Seeking compromise 18
Results and future prospects 20
CONCLUSION 23
REFERENCES
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| Abstract
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In Bam Province, there has been a sharp decline in the area of grazing and
woodland around villages. There are now only five remaining woodland/grazing
areas – defined as “protected forests” in the Forest Code – in the whole Bam
Province, spread over several village territories (see Figure 1). These serve both as “areas of refuge” for sedentary and transhumant herd-owners and as “firewood gathering areas” for neighbouring villages and urban centres, further aggravating the degradation of bushland, which consists mainly of scrub and wooded savannah and a few islands of dense dry or gallery forest. Given the lack of fertile land and the consequent scarcity of natural resources, these “bush areas” are subject to a conflict of interests between the different groups wanting to appropriate a share of them. The arable area now amounts to just 0.8 ha per user2, and there is no scope for the further expansion of arable farming. Herd-owners’ access to grazing land and watering points has become increasingly restricted by the encroachment of arable crops. However, in the conflict of interests between the principal antagonists – cultivators and herders – 3, the fact that their activities are complementary is easily forgotten. Both farmers and herders know they would suffer if herd mobility was further constrained in Bam Province – though this does not stop them from being in competition.
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| Permission
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Yes
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| Category
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Resource Management
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