Exploring farmers’ engagement in tree planting and management in deforested areas in Cameroon’s western highlands
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The paper explores the motivations, challenges, negotiating strategies and barriers of communities’ participation and engagement in tree planting and management in deforested area in Cameroon’s Western Highlands. We interviewed 120 respondents, including 92 participating farmers, 21 non-participating farmers and 7 field-based staff. We used the interview responses of the farmers as constitutive items to develop dimensions and scales of motivations, challenges and barriers to ecosystem restoration volunteering. The principal components analysis with
oblique (Direct oblimin) rotation together with the scree plot and eigen values (total variance explained) was used to reduce the number of items in each dimension. The Cronbach reliability statistics was used to test the reliability constitutive items in each dimension. The linear regression analysis was used to examine how the different dimensions of motivations, challenges and barriers influence community ecosystem restoration stewardship volunteering. Community volunteering were initially driven by environmental factors only when personal economic
and less so community benefits were met. Social dimension items were least perceived and were non-significant predictors of the community ecosystem restoration stewardship. Retaining and committing the restoration stewards to tree planting were mainly limited by management, financial, psychological and geographical location challenges. Non-participation and -involvement of some farmers was driven by economic, information, psychological and personal barriers. Negotiating strategies and recommendations are proposed to overcome the identified challenges and barriers. The local knowledge on ecosystem restoration stewardship motivations, challenges, barriers and negotiation strategies will inform policy and practice and improve on the success and sustainability of community- led ecosystem restoration initiatives in Cameroon and in other Central African countries.
Keywords: ecosystem restoration motivations; ecosystem restoration challenges; ecosystem restoration barriers, negotiation strategies; ecosystem restoration volunteering; sustainable land management
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