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Community
Forestry
DIN's
community forestry programme is seen as an important opportunity
to strengthen participatory forest management and to address
many of the underlying causes of deforestation, including poverty
and insecurity.
Community
forestry includes the following activities:
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Supporting
local forest conservation and protection initiatives.
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Establishing
and strengthening local forest management bodies.
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Supporting
initiatives to forest dependent livelihoods.
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Establishing,
demonstrating and promoting new technologies in the domestication
of non-timber forest products.
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Undertaking
research aimed at strengthening field based projects and
influencing government policy.
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Protecting
remnant forest blocks from fire through providing training
in fire tracing, fire fighting, and bushburning awareness
raising with community groups.
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Assisting
in collection of indigenous seeds and seedlings.
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Raising
indigenous tree seedlings in demonstration and community
tree nurseries.
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Supporting
the establishment of community woodlots with indigenous
and fast growing timber species.
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Reforestation
of degraded forest areas through planting local species.
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Support
of a local forest management committees (FMCs).
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Support
in developing and implementing of community Forest Management
Plans (FMPs).
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Facilitate
Participatory Forest Mapping and Land Use Management Planning.
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Propagation
methods for Afang (Gnetum africanum), a local vegetable
collected in tropical high forest has been introduced to
womens' groups in villages around Bateriko in eastern Boki
local government area.
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The
introduction of grafting and budding techniques for Bush
Mango (Irvingo gabonensis), a key ingredient in "draw
soup", a staple throughout Nigeria. Bush Mango
is an important economic species. Many rural women realise
significant income through the collection and sale of the
fruit of this tropical forest species.
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Raising
of other important economic tree species including kola
nut, citrus fruits, oil palm and avocado.
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Training
of community members in the construction of propagators
and grafting and budding techniques.
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Conducting
fuelwood surveys.
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Collection
of data on indigenous plant uses, compilation of a centralised
list of useful plants.
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Conducting
(3) workshops with hunters and herbalists from different
forest zones in Cross River State, northern Nigeria and
Cameroon to identify threats and opportunities in their
respective professions.
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Documentation
of useful plants and compilation of Ethno-botanical inventories.
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Participatory
Appraisals focusing on natural resource management and use.
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