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Cameroon's community-forestry system
Cameroon's first community-forestry regime delegated bounded forest-management and product rights to village legal entities while retaining state-defined territory, approval, and supervision. Early cases around Lomié show that a permit could give residents standing and revenue, but that practical authority still followed control of maps, technical files, machines, contracts, prices, and accounts.
Can a permit move authority to forest residents when the state, technical partner, and timber buyer still choose the territory, paperwork, and viable pace of harvest?