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Abstract(s)
Since the early 2000s, the Democratic Republic of Congo has
been conducting a reform of its forestry sector with the publication of The
Forest Code (2002). The implementation of this law, which aims to assure
the participation of all stakeholders, has been evolving slowly since then.
The present research aims to evaluate the knowledge local communities and
indigenous people detain over the ongoing reform, and the expectations
they created when negotiations over the implementation of industrial
harvesting activities in their traditional territories began. By interviewing
local people, we came to understand that insufficient knowledge regarding
the law gathers with a lack of concern towards ecological or environmental
matters and with the need of seeing basic needs satisfied; all this in a context
in which different stakeholders’ responsibilities and negotiational terms are
often misunderstood.
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forest code, participation, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indigenous people
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Citation
Amaral, F., & Simão, J. (2021). People’s Voices on the Sustainable Forest Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 9(1), 59–89. https://doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v9i1.299