NIGER

Niger is one of the world's poorest countries, with very little forest cover. Its economy is centres on subsistence farming, livestock and some of the worlds largest uranium deposits. A combination of droughts, desertification, a population growth rate of 3.3% and a recent drop in the global demand for uranium have put severe pressures on the economy, and speeded up the process of deforestation.

Since 1990, Niger has lost 35% of its natural forest cover. Only 1% of the land area is now forested, of which 17% is primary forest. Former forested areas suffer from soil loss and desertification as the Sahara expands. In an effort to slow the Sahara's expansion, the government planted more than 60 million trees between 1985 and 1997. The country's biodiversity is threatened by poaching and habitat loss.

The Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) is working with partners in Niger to improve governance and enforcement, and increase community participation in resource management.

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
29/05/2009	Tropical Forest Tenure Assessment: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities The goal of this report is to present and analyse the state of forest tenure in much of the world's ...	Rights and Resources Initiative / International Tropical Timber Organisation
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01/05/2009	Forest Governance Learning Group Update May 2009 This 7th Forest Governance Learning Group Update describes activities and their impacts over the last ...	Forest Governance Learning Group
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01/06/2008	Forest Governance Learning Group Update June 2008 This Update highlights the impacts and plans of the Forest Governance Learning Group in its country-based ...	IIED
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01/02/2008	Forest Products Trade between China and Africa: An Analysis of Imports and Exports Recent media coverage of China's efforts to secure access to natural resources in Africa suggests ...	Forest Trends (Kerstin Canby, James Hewitt, Luke Bailey, Eugenia Katsigris, Sun Xiufang)
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01/09/2007	Forest Governance Learning Group Update September 2007 The latest update report from the Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG), describing activities over ...	FGLG
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01/01/2006	Forest Governance Learning Group Update January 2006 Describes the group's activities, impacts and outputs over the last year and outlines the path ahead. ...	FGLG
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
23/07/2009	The need to check deforestation in West Africa Achieving long-term development in West Africa requires much more than just exploiting the region's ...	Business Day, Nigeria
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28/05/2009	Indigenous people, forest communities in Africa control less than 2% of forest land Less than 2 percent of Africas tropical forests are under community control, hindering efforts to slow ...	Mongabay.com
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25/05/2009	Slow forest tenure reform threatens Africa's action against climate change A new report released today at a major global forestry conference in Cameroon has found that deforestation ...	Africa Science News Service (Kenya)
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18/06/2008	Fish and timber in West Africa need more sustainable EU policies say MEPs Fish and timber are natural resources often not managed in a sustainable way in West Africa due to inadequate ...	European Parliament (EU)
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE
Monday 6th December 2004	Commission For Africa ' Forest Programme Brainstorm A brainstorming session on illegal logging held in part to feed into the Commission for Africa Report, ...
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