The NEWS (Monrovia)
3 April 2008
Monrovia — Liberia is this week playing host to over twenty international researchers and experts who are in the country to hold a series of discourses aimed at revealing and promoting systems of forest ownership and management that alleviate poverty amongst forest people.
The visitors, who will be in the country until this weekend, are guests of the Environmental Lawyers of Liberia or Green Advocates and its international partner, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) with support from the UK-based Department for International Development (DFID).
A release from the Green Advocate said while in the country, the forest researchers and experts will hold forums at the University of Liberia today and the Crystal Oceanview Hotel on Friday in order to provide an opportunity for Liberian academics, policymakers and researchers active in forest sector to learn of alternative tenure and enterprise models within and outside Africa.
The researchers will present case studies of alternatives to the conventional concession industry from Ghana, Cameroon, The Gambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Sweden, Guatemala and Canada.
The analyses of the researchers will identity the constraints of and opportunities for the development of an equitable forest sector, make recommendations for tenure policy reforms, and suggest ways to enable appropriate and realistic pro-poor enterprises in Liberia.
Green Advocates and Rights and Resources Initiatives are facilitating the forums in order to foster discussions and promote the development of locally-led networks and initiatives that advance pro-poor forestry-based economic growth in Liberia.
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