Date: March 6, 2013

This policy brief looks at land and forest tenure reforms in West and Central Africa. Ituses the recommendations from the 2009 International Conference in Yaoundé on Forest Tenure” Governance” and Enterprise as its points of reference” particularly those calling on Central and West African states” and regional and sub-regional institutions to initiate or accelerate reforms to statutory tenure systems that would lead to the “legal recognition of community owned forests” or the “doubling of land areas under community ownership” by 2015.