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Page title: Areas of interest

 

Subtitle: Research themes

Areas of interest to the project are those emphasising and focussing on bushmeat as a central component of rural forest livelihoods. Key to the project’s approach is the fundamental importance of working towards solving ecological sustainability issues from a livelihoods perspective and framework.

A number of underlying themes have been identified as being of particular relevance:

bullet point Policy and legislative changes relating to the rules of resource tenure and other forms of resource-use restraint;

bullet point Organisational innovations and institutional reforms – from local to regional level

bullet point Land use and landscape planning arrangements – examining the potential for multi-layered forest utilisation practices and ecologically ameliorable (eg source - sink) solutions

bullet point The role of bushmeat in rural livelihoods – further developing understanding of its socio-economic nature and siginifcance

bullet point Marketing restructuring and targeted economic incentives

bullet point Environmental awareness and education - and its relation to local cultural interpretations and understandings of the landscape

bullet point Financing change - Options for generating assured long-term investment in local forest-governance institutions and livelihoods
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