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The chainsaw supply chain in cameroon: the northern trail

In: Chainsaw milling: supplier to local markets. Wit, Marieke and Jinke van Dam (eds.). (2010). Tropenbos international, wageningen, the netherlands. xxii + 226 pp. ISBN 978-90-5113-094-2

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  • Langbour, Patrick
  • Roda, Jean-Marc
  • Koffi, Yeboah Alexis

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Cameroon has the largest forest area in africa. industrial logging operations export timber products to Europe, america and asia, and informal chainsaw milling (CSM) operations supply the domestic market and many other african countries. The “northern trail” is an informal supply chain that supplies northern Cameroon and other african markets as far as nigeria, niger, Chad, sudan, Egypt, libya and algeria. This supply chain is organized by ethnic business networks, and represents more than 40,000 m3/year of chainsawn timber, with a cash flow of more than 6 billion FCFa/year.

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  • Langbour, Patrick & Roda, Jean-Marc & Koffi, Yeboah Alexis, 2010. "The chainsaw supply chain in cameroon: the northern trail," Selected Book Chapters, in: Marieke Wit & Jinke van Dam (ed.), Chainsaw milling: supplier to local markets. Wit, Marieke and Jinke van Dam (eds.). (2010). Tropenbos international, wageningen, the netherlands. xxii, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 4, pages 129-137, CIRAD, Forest department, UPR40.
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    1. Terence McGee, 1979. "Conservation and Dissolution in the Third World City: The ‘Shanty Town’ as an Element of Conservation," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 10(1), pages 1-22, January.
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    Keywords

    ethnic business; informal trade; timber; forest; tropical; chain saw; economics; flegt; Cameroun; RCA; Tchad; Egypt; Tunisia; Lybia; Mauritania; Mali; Europe; EU; Sahel; Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • L73 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction - - - Forest Products
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q23 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Forestry
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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