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Socio-Economic Importance
of Forests
Environmental and
Ecological Benefits
Forest Resources of
Ghana
Deforestation
Rates of deforestation
Region
% Forest Cover Change
(2000-2005)
Africa
- 0.6
South America
- 0.5
Asia
0.18
Europe
0.07
North and central America
- 0.05
World
-0.18
Magnitude of Ghanas
Forest Loss
Deforestation
Causes of deforestation
Indirect Causes of
Deforestation
Greed
Ignorance
Inappropriate Forest
Policies and Property
Rights Systems
Policy weaknesses (Grainger and Konteh,
Policy weaknesses as a
cause to deforestation
Measures of Controlling
Deforestation
Controlling deforestation
Principles of Natural
Resource Governance
Corruption
corruptiom
Arguments for
Decentralised Natural
Resources Management
It will reduce Systems
management cost due to
Criticisms
Applications
Ambiguities of new
decentralised Forest
policy in Ghana
Policy formulated in 1994
Actors: Central government, Community forestry
committees to provide free labour
Powers: No power to local people; no consultations; they
have no rights over forest resources. 10% revenue to
chiefs and DAS.
Accountability: No downward accountability
Conclusion: Government is not committed to
decentralisation; Use of decentralisation to masquerade
patronage networks
Similar situations in Senegal, Zimbabwe ( see Ribot, 2008).
African governments are not committed to
decentralisation.