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In 1990 conservation projects started activities in the Mount Cameroon region. After a few years of operation, the local population was still to be convinced that conservation efforts would succeed, giving the fact that no concrete alternative income generation programmes were established for the forest stakeholders whose livelihood depended on the forest resources. The project authorities faced resistance from the local population who saw conservation as another way to deprive them from their forest.
After participating in a series of training workshops and seminars on various facets of Natural Resource Management, Mr. Lyonga William Mumbe together with others founded FAAFNET. In December 1997, an initial constituent meeting of a group of persons who had expressed their wish to be volunteers for the promotion of the lofty initiative of sustainable natural resources management and introducing or encouraging alternative income generating activities within communities in this region was convened and chaired by Mr. Lyonga William Mumbe. It was agreed during this meeting that we could not fold our arms and do nothing in this prevailing situation.
Founding members of this initiative also noted that most conservation projects started and ended without creating impact within communities of the region, especially in the domain of natural resource management for local peasant farmers whose livelihood depended on the forest which they were encouraged to conserve
It is within this background that a participatory strategy was put in place by an indigenous interdisciplinary team, consisting of a group of specialist in the domain of natural resource management, agriculture, livestock, education, beekeeping, gender and community development.
In 1990 conservation projects started activities in the Mount Cameroon region. After a few years of operation, the local population was still to be convinced that conservation efforts would succeed, giving the fact that no concrete alternative income generation programmes were established for the forest stakeholders whose livelihood depended on the forest resources. The project authorities faced resistance from the local population who saw conservation as another way to deprive them from their forest.
After participating in a series of training workshops and seminars on various facets of Natural Resource Management, Mr. Lyonga William Mumbe together with others founded FAAFNET. In December 1997, an initial constituent meeting of a group of persons who had expressed their wish to be volunteers for the promotion of the lofty initiative of sustainable natural resources management and introducing or encouraging alternative income generating activities within communities in this region was convened and chaired by Mr. Lyonga William Mumbe. It was agreed during this meeting that we could not fold our arms and do nothing in this prevailing situation.
Founding members of this initiative also noted that most conservation projects started and ended without creating impact within communities of the region, especially in the domain of natural resource management for local peasant farmers whose livelihood depended on the forest which they were encouraged to conserve
It is within this background that a participatory strategy was put in place by an indigenous interdisciplinary team, consisting of a group of specialist in the domain of natural resource management, agriculture, livestock, education, beekeeping, gender and community development.
