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CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Restructuring Africa's foreign education

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In Africa, unlike in the west, local people are more dependent on forests for their livelihoods. In addition to timber, forests supply food, fuelwood, medicine, building poles and dry season grazing. In spite of this, fore stry education over the last 70 years has focused mainly on timber production and wate r conservation and neglected other forest uses and products e.g., non-timber products, biodiversity, eco-tourism, etc. The central governments have reinforced this bias by putting a premium on timber production and water catchment value while undervaluing the other forest uses. Increasingly, however, changes in public perception of forests and forestry are defining new approaches to the conservation and use of trees and forests. Reco gnition of forests as major carbon sinks is raising the number of stakeholders and influencing the goals, science and practice of managing trees and forests. Reconciling all inte rests is hard for the forester and even harder for the forestry educa tion curriculum developer. In th is paper, we reflect on the history and status of forestry education in Africa and propose some ideas for the future
    Année de publication

    2008

    Auteurs

    Temu A B; Kiyiapi J

    Langue

    English

    Mots clés

    education, environment, forestry, natural resources

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