Fabrice Kengne

Fabrice Kengne Fotso is a lecturer-researcher at the University of Dschang in Cameroon. His work focuses specifically on land and forest governance in the countries of the Congo Basin, and on protection of the rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples. Involved in the CIFOR-ICRAF-coordinated RESSAC programme since February, he is conducting a post-doctoral study on the political economy of community forestry in Central Africa as part of a consortium comprising two research institutions (CIFOR and IRAF) and two civil society organizations (SAILD and APEM). In this study, he is conducting a retrospective analysis of community forestry in Cameroon, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a three-fold objective: to assess the extent of support given to the process and describe the practical arrangements for this support; to evaluate the impacts of community forestry at the village level; and to describe the obstacles that have prevented the process from producing the expected results. His work aims to produce scientific knowledge that can inform public policy on sustainable development.