This project investigates the ways carbon forestry politics unfold in the Mai-Ndombe jurisdictional REDD+ programme and the meaning of such politics for the transformational change promised by REDD+. Using political ecology lenses, the investigation delves into the REDD+ value chain to unveil the forms and manifestations of politics in order to make sense of: how narratives to build the case of Mai-Ndombe as an area suited for REDD+ match with historical, socio-political and ecological realities; how and for what consequences the players with uneven power exercise their power in the REDD+ arena; how politics and technics are articulated together in the process of creating and redistributing REDD+ outcomes and have implications for effectiveness and equity; and how the cross-cutting issue of community resistance is expressed through different experiences of communities encountering REDD+.
Researcher
Guy Patrice Dkamela is an independent consultant on natural resources management. Over the past twenty years, he contributed to projects and processes relevant to forestry, biodiversity conservation, land and resources tenure, forest-dwelling communities, and REDD+ policies in Cameroon and the Congo basin countries. He holds a BA in Sociology (urban and industrial) and an MA in Sociology (environment and development) from the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. His academic training also includes ecological anthropology and international environmental law. He is a PhD candidate at Environmental Humanities South affiliated with the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.