2 February 2024 | Publications
The fight against climate change is one of the major concerns of the international community and has led to a search to identify cost-effective ways to manage ecosystems in a way that removes atmospheric carbon-dioxide while providing essential societal benefits. As...
26 October 2023 | Publications
Over the last two decades, bamboo has received increasing attention owing to its socio-economic and environmental importance. Environmentally, bamboo plays an important role in carbon sequestration, thus enhancing climate change mitigation. In Cameroon, knowledge...
6 April 2023 | Publications
Studies suggest that bamboo is an excellent biological resource with the capacity to sequester and stock carbon while providing direct and indirect services that support human well-being. Cameroon, despite having a huge bamboo potential, has not benefited from these...
20 March 2023 | Publications
REDD+ is a mechanism that is used to advance the efforts of developing countries that are endowed with forests to mitigate climate change by decreasing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, encouraging conservation and the sustainable management of...
7 December 2022 | Publications
In the Western Highlands of Cameroon, natural ecosystems have been significantly degraded, fostering other land-use types like bamboo stands. However, knowledge of the potential contribution of bamboo to climate change mitigation within the framework of payment for...
6 April 2022 | Publications
Rattan is an important Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) with huge potential to boost socio-economic development in indigenous communities of Cameroon in particular and the entire country in general. Rattan is mainly harvested from the wild, with no involvement of...
5 May 2021 | Publications
Rattan is an important Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) that plays an important role in the livelihood sustenance of harvesters within communities, but there is little knowledge on its growth potential and sustainability in Cameroon. This study evaluated the growth...
20 March 2021 | Publications
Background Forests are naturally endowed to combat climate change by protecting people and livelihoods as well as creating a base for sustainable economic and social development. But this natural mechanism is often hampered by anthropogenic activities. It is therefore...
19 February 2020 | Publications
The carbon storage capacity and allometry for bamboo in forest ecosystems has been neglected in the Congo Basin. This study evaluated the above ground carbon stocks and develop allometry for Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex J.C.Wendl. in the tropical evergreen forest of...
19 January 2020 | Publications
Landsat 8 OLI imageries were used in order to increase data on the distribution and carbon stocks of Oxytenanthera abyssinica (A. Rich.) Munro in the Guinea savannah of Cameroon, Eight circular plots of 100 m2 were established in O. abyssinica stands in Beyala hill....
19 June 2019 | Publications
Purpose This paper aims to examine the policy environments, institutional arrangements and practical implementation of some initiatives undertaken by the Government of Cameroon, together with some relevant stakeholders, in addressing climate change mitigation and...
18 July 2017 | Publications
Lighting accounts for over 20% of electricity use in the residential sector of Cameroon. Due to the unreliable and inadequate energy supply in the country, there is a need for the efficient utilization of the available energy. This paper presents the current different...
