West Africa : Community Based Natural Resource Management
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This has to be accomplished against a
background of high illiteracy rates, rapidly growing
populations, low and erratic rainfall, inherently infertile
soils, and development strategies which have had a strong
urban bias. Under such conditions, traditional production
systems are unable to sustain the population. Without
significant change, land degradation will accelerate and the
natural resource base on which agricultural production
depends will continue to decline. The efforts made in the
1970s and 1980s to tackle this problem were not particularly
successful. They tended to focus too much on production and
did not attempt to involve the local population in
decision-making and management. Drawing on the lessons
learned from these projects, governments, and donors
initiated a new generation of community-based,
decentralized, multi sectoral Natural Resource Management
(NRM) projects. Starting as a series of pilot operations in
the late 1980s, this approach sought to ensure local
community participation in the identification development
and implementation of NRM projects, while building
institutional capacity for effective resource use planning
and human resource development.
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AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION, AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURE, BULLETIN, CAPACITY BUILDING, COMMUNITY BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, DECENTRALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, FACILITATORS, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, FOOD SECURITY, FOREST, FORESTRY, FORESTRY POLICY, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, ILLITERACY, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, LAND DEGRADATION, LAND MANAGEMENT, LAND TENURE, LAND USE, LAND USE SYSTEM, LESSONS LEARNED, LIVESTOCK, LOCAL CAPACITY, LOCAL CAPACITY BUILDING, LOCAL COMMUNITIES, LOCAL COMMUNITY, LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, LOCAL POPULATION, MARGINALIZED GROUPS, MIGRATION, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, NATIONAL FORESTRY, NATIONAL LEVEL, NATIONAL POLICY, NATURAL RESOURCE, NATURAL RESOURCE BASE, NATURAL RESOURCE DEGRADATION, NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES, NGOS, PASTORALISTS, PILOT ACTIVITIES, POPULATION PRESSURE, POPULATION PRESSURES, PUBLIC AWARENESS, RESOURCE USE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, SETTLEMENT, SOILS, SUSTAINABLE SETTLEMENT, URBAN BIAS, VILLAGE LEVEL, VILLAGES, WILDLIFE, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, ZONING