Abstract
Industrial forest concessions cover about 45 million hectares in Central Africa. This paper discusses the weaknesses of the current concession model and initiatives for helping it evolve; it then proposes a new type of concession, entitled 'Concessions 2.0', adapted to the future challenges presented by the overlapping among the rights and modes of the harvesting of multiple resources. This proposed model is based on four features: (i) mapping and recognition of the customary territories within and around the industrial concession, (ii) timber revenue sharing indexed on the extension of the customary territories and contractual management agreements within the communities, (iii) allowance of commercial exploitation of non-timber resources by entitled claimers under the supervision and/or in association with the concessionaire, and (iv) inclusive governance for the management of overlapping rights over the concession area. (Resume d'auteur)
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SUMMARYThis paper discusses the weaknesses of the current concession model and initiatives for helping it evolve; it proposes a new type of concession, entitled ‘Concessions 2.0’, adapted to the future challenges presented by the overlapping among the rights and modes of the harvesting of multiple resources
Industrial forest concessions cover about 45 million hectares in Central Africa and have existed since the nineteenth century
Haurez et al (2013, 2015) states that in the absence of poaching, the gorilla population in the western lowlands seems resilient to selective logging in Central Africa (p. i) and specifies that the results show that a viable population of gorillas can be maintained in a selectively logged forest (< 2 trees ha)
Summary
This paper discusses the weaknesses of the current concession model and initiatives for helping it evolve; it proposes a new type of concession, entitled ‘Concessions 2.0’, adapted to the future challenges presented by the overlapping among the rights and modes of the harvesting of multiple resources This proposed model is based on four features: (i) mapping and recognition of the customary territories within and around the industrial concession, (ii) timber revenue sharing indexed on the extension of the customary territories and contractual management agreements within the communities, (iii) allowance of commercial exploitation of non-timber resources by entitled claimers under the supervision and/or in association with the concessionaire, and (iv) inclusive governance for the management of overlapping rights over the concession area. Este nuevo modelo de concesión se caracterizaría por los cuatro componentes siguientes: (i) el mapeo y el reconocimiento de los territorios tradicionales dentro y alrededor de las concesiones industriales; (ii) el reparto de los beneficios de la venta de madera en base a la extensión de los territorios tradicionales y bajo un acuerdo contractual con las comunidades; (iii) la autorización de explotar recursos no madereros por sus usuarios legítimos bajo la supervisión y/o en asociación con el concesionario; y (iv) el diseño de una gobernanza inclusiva con respecto a los derechos que se encuentren superpuestos dentro de la concesión
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