Developing institutional infrastructure for handling conservation problems in West Africa.
1990
Agyepong, G. T.
The paper discusses an approach to developing institutional infrastructure to address conservation problems in West Africa. It examines early concerns and approaches to conservation in West Africa. These arose out of the threat of the advancing Sahara and of soil erosion, suggesting the need to protect the climate. The early approaches were largely sectoral, typified by the establishment of forestry and agriculture departments. Forest reservations were instituted, although conservation and protection efforts were mainly experimental up to the end of the Second World War. A comprehensive interdisciplinary approach began to emerge during the 1950s: this was not sustained after the 1960s but was replaced by the River Basin Authorities in Nigeria, the Rural Integrated Development Projects in Ghana and some special ad hoc projects. Recent developments in conservation are reviewed but found to lack a viable organizational structure. An approach envisaging the establishment of an agency responsible for initiating policy, planning and monitoring of land use is suggested. The international implications of this approach are also discussed.
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