by erudef | Apr 7, 2020 | Blog, Mt Bamboutos Initiative, Newsletter
The Mount Bamboutos area is a cosmopolitan environment characterized by varied land use patterns which generate conflicts between farmers and grazers, farmers and farmers and between villages. Also the population is facing a decrease of agricultural yields, a lack of...
by erudef | Apr 7, 2020 | Blog, Mount Bamboutos initiative (MBI), Mt Bamboutos Initiative, Newsletter
The Forest Gardens Project II kicked off on March 2020, with the training and practical establishment of nurseries in each locality in Mount Bamboutos landscape. Nursery establishment is the preliminary stage of trees planting. Being a special site for the production...
by Ayuk Oben | Oct 20, 2019 | Forest and Climate Change, Tree planting and Agroforestry, Livelihood and Economic Development and Perspectives, Mt Bamboutos Initiative
Market gardening, that employs more than 80% of the rural population of the Mt. Bamboutos area and contributes greatly to the country’s per capital income, has been causing social insecurity in the rural communities. These mal practices include nocturnal harvestingof...
by erudef | Sep 6, 2018 | Mt Bamboutos Initiative, News
One of the world’s pioneer environmental organisation, the International Tree Foundation and Cameroon’s leading conservation non-profit organisation the Environment and Rural Development Foundation in partnership with the Cameroon Government have launched a 15 year...
by erudef | Sep 5, 2018 | Mt Bamboutos Initiative, News
The Cameroon Mountain University Network (CaMUN) has identified research thematic areas within the Mount Bamboutos Initiative (MBI). The research areas were identified, August 2018, during CaMUN’s maiden meeting in the University of Buea, which brought together...
by erudef | Jul 6, 2018 | Forest and Climate Change, Tree planting and Agroforestry, Mt Bamboutos Initiative, News, Newsletter, Press Release
One of the world’s pioneer environmental organisation, International Tree Foundation (ITF) has joined forces with the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) to restore over 35,000 ha of the degraded landscape of the Mt. Bamboutos ecosystem through the...
by erudef | Jun 27, 2018 | Livelihood and Economic Development and Perspectives, Mt Bamboutos Initiative
Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is the fair and equitable distribution of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources and their related traditional knowledge. The Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) concept originated from the Convention on Biological...
by erudef | Jun 20, 2018 | Mt Bamboutos Initiative, News
One of the villages in Batcham Sub Division, Bamboutos Division in the West Region of Cameroon, Bangang, has celebrated the maiden edition of its Trees Day, being the first village within Cameroon to engage in such environmentally friendly initiative. Celebrated,...
by erudef | Jun 19, 2018 | Mt Bamboutos Initiative, News
An association of traditional rulers within the Mount Bamboutos area dubbed the Mount Bamboutos Fon’s Association (MBFA) has been created to ensure effective grassroots participation and involvement in the sustainable management of the Mount Bamboutos ecosystem. This...
