Perceived Injustices in Forest Policy Interventions are Causes of Forest Resources Degradation and Loss in Ghana: A Review
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- doi:10.4236/ojf.2021.113012
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- Richard Kyere-Boateng · Michal V. Marek · Mikuláš Huba · Tatiana Kluvánková
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- 2021
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Czech Academy of Sciences · Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute · Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences · Slovak Academy of Sciences · Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava · University of Energy and Natural Resources
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Forests provide diverse co-benefits, including livelihoods enhancement, poverty alleviation, and biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services such as climate mitigation. Consequently, Ghana has embraced several global, regional, national, and local forest policy interventions to safeguard its forest resources’ sustainable management. However, the forest policy interventions have not adequately addressed the co-benefits issues of forest resources leading to several forest illegalities that drive forest resources degradation and loss. These forest policies and interventions on the ground primarily favour carbon stocks enhancement and sequestration activities for carbon mitigation purposes compared to the benefits, access and rights that forest-dependent people and communities are supposed to derive from forest resources. These perceived injustices in the access and distribution of forest resources have culminated into all forms of forest illegalities driving Ghana’s forest resources into massive degradation and loss. Currently, Ghana is experiencing a 2% rate of annual deforestation and forest degradation, which translates into approximately 135,000 ha/year of forest cover loss due to anthropogenic causes. Our review is based on relevant and critical forest documents, and scientific peer-reviewed papers on Ghana’s forest policy interventions and dynamics recently published. The information gathered enabled us to highlight the perceived injustices in the forest policy interventions and their effects on forest resources. Unjust forest resources sharing and distribution are critical drivers of forest resources degradation and loss. We thus offer lessons for remedying the unfair distribution and injustices to promote equitable forest resources rights and benefit access to local forest-dependent people. It is expected that this review will offer and assist forest policy, intervention spatial and other planners and designers to find a possible way forward to avoid nature degradation, including biodiversity loss, to resolve perceived injustices in the forestry sector, to use adequate all ecosystem services provided by forests as well as to promote local livelihood and sustainability.
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- 10.4236/ojf.2021.113012
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Richard Kyere-Boateng; Michal V. Marek; Mikuláš Huba; Tatiana Kluvánková. Perceived Injustices in Forest Policy Interventions are Causes of Forest Resources Degradation and Loss in Ghana: A Review. 2021. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2021.113012
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- Richard Kyere-Boateng; Michal V. Marek; Mikuláš Huba; Tatiana Kluvánková. (2021). Perceived Injustices in Forest Policy Interventions are Causes of Forest Resources Degradation and Loss in Ghana: A Review. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2021.113012
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Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute
Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
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