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Articles | Volume 73, issue 2
Articles | Volume 73, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-165-2018
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Fuelwood territorialities: Chantier d'Aménagement Forestier and the reproduction of “political forests” in Burkina Faso

Muriel Côte and Denis Gautier

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This paper interrogates the endurance of a national forest management programme in Burkina Faso called Chantier d’Aménagement Forestier (CAF) despite evidence of its shortcomings. Analysing the political economics of control over fuelwood markets helps elucidate the endurance of the CAF model. This is important because it helps us understand how certain areas continue to be officially referred to as "forest" even when they do not have the ecological characteristic of one.
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The trouble with forest: definitions, boundaries and values