Prospects for participatory resources managament in the margins of Upper Guinea forests - Sierra Leone

Abstract

Maintaining forests and biodiversity levels remains a key challenge all over the world. SeveralTargeting policy issues to catalyze change in forest resource management In Sierra Leone, the main weaknesses were identified in two categories: Inadequacies in existing forestry texts .Data collection during the study attempts/approaches have been adopted but yet trends have been the erosion of ecosystems resources over the past several decades. Incentive mechanisms have featured as a prominent part of the battery of approaches in recent times to target interventions at landscape level. Agroforestry is believed to be a land use with potential to contribute to forested areas conservation and linking it to right incentive mechanisms could constitute strong driving forces to conserve forest ecosystems and even reverse ongoing resources losses (Sharma et al, 2007). However, little is documented on agroforestry prospective options and policy outlets to sustain forest resources in the Upper Guinea forest ecosystem. This poster presents the early results of the effects of collective action combined with agroforestry based incentives developed and tested in Sierra Leone