Forest resources and timber production of Ghana: Current instruments for sustainable development |
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Authors: | Mark Aferdi Dadebo Takeo Shinohara |
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Institution: | (1) United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, 890-0065 Kagoshima, Japan;(2) Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, 903-0213 Nishihara-cho, Okinawa, Japan |
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Abstract: | The decline of the natural tropical high forest has reached a critical stage in Ghana’s forestry history. Timber resources
are over-exploited, degraded and further production prospects are questionable and of concern to forest management. The objective
of this paper is to discuss some of the institutional measures and development instruments being taken in Ghana towards the
feasibility of achieving sustainable management of the high forest for timber and other commodity products, as well as conserving
other forest resources. This paper, therefore, provides institutional measures and structures, regulatory and economic instruments,
currently being taken to ensure effective forest management and increase the productivity of the land and logging. The role
of collaborative management approach of both natural reserved and unreserved high forests and to promote integrated farm forestry
is explained. Effective management of the high forest resource demands close harmonizing of instruments and mechanisms, both
internal and external to forestry, and which encourage stakeholders to participate actively in decision making that affects
the resource quality and its production status. Currently, different instruments including regulatory, property rights, motivational,
hypothecation, information supply and economic are being applied in Ghana to achieve sustainable forest resource management
and timber production. These instruments are not mutually exclusive in their current application, but rather complementary.
Thus, an effective mix of instruments is necessary to promote and make feasible, sustainable forestry in Ghana’s socioeconomic
development objectives. |
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Keywords: | forest degradation Ghana management instruments yield condition parameters |
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