Lucie Felicite Temgoua

Université de Dschang · Department of forestry

Restoration of degraded forest landscapes is now high on the international political agenda. Cameroon has committed to restoring more than 12 million of its degraded forest lands over a 20-year period. Among these landscapes, the Bamboutos Mountains in the western highlands are a priority area. In order to contribute to this process, baseline studi...

The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of beekeeping practices in the fight against climate change. To achieve this, a representative sample of 180 beekeepers was chosen and also random. It shows that good beekeeping practices contribute to sustainable conservation of forests and thereby the mitigation of the harmful effects of c...

This article analyzes the dynamics of communication that contributed to halt the logging plans in the Ebo forest. The study was conducted through a mixed research approach combining qualitative research based on bibliometric analysis and the political ecology method. Our analysis identified an emergent three-step strategy: a media campaign to name...

The prevailing global economic system has caused great harm to the environment notably through global warming and climate change. This economic system which is fossil fuel-driven will continue to wreak havoc on the environment leading to irreparable damages if sustainable measures are not taken. Thus, a transition to a more sustainable economic sys...

Protected areas (PAs) in Cameroon witness chronic underfunding, with most operating with only around 10% of the necessary funds. This study aimed to explore socioeconomic factors affecting Mefou Wildlife Sanctuary (MWS) visitors' willingness to pay (WTP) for wildlife species observation in their natural habitat. The study was based on semi-structur...

Recent studies stressed the importance of religion in addressing climate change and other environmental issues. However, little attention is paid to Islamic perception and challenges toward environmental sustainability. This study addresses a) Islamic prescriptions regarding environmental protection, b) Islamic involvement in environmental organiza...

Agroforestry systems (AFSs) offer viable solutions to climate change because of the below-ground biomass (BGB) that is maintained by the soil. Therefore, spatially explicit estimation of their BGB is crucial to account for emission reduction efforts. A study to assess soil organic carbon (SOC) and nitrogen dynamics in Arabica coffee agroforests...

Agroforestry as an agroecological pathway to biodiversity conservation has been examined by different studies around world. However, little or no research has been done to assess how agroforestry can be used to conserve biodiversity for ecotourism enhancement in and around protected areas. This study was therefore undertaken to fill this knowledge...

Rural agrarian systems are bearing the brunt of the adverse effects of climate change owing to their high level of vulnerability to extreme climate events. Agro-ecological farming practices like agroforestry are being increasingly taken up by peasant farmers (men and women) in an attempt to counter the adverse effects of climate change. In Cameroon...

Climate change poses the greatest threat to smallholder farming systems and smallholder farmers. This is largely due to the limited adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers confronted with the adversities of climate change. Climate-smart and agroecological farming practices can play a major role in reducing vulnerability and enhancing resilience to...

Reducing vulnerability to climate change is fundamental if small-scale farming systems across the world are to address current and predicted climate change. With small-scale food production systems satisfying over half of the world’s nutritional needs, ensuring their sustainability in the face of adverse climatic conditions is vital. This study exa...

Climate change is a real threat to peasant farmers across the world. Peasant farmers’ dependence on rainfall for cultivation and their limited adaptive capacity renders them vulnerable to the adversities of climate change. This calls for the adoption/intensification of nature-based practices that enhance resilience and reduce vulnerability to extre...

The assessment of carbon storage capacity in forests is a key tool for combating climate change and contributing to the mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). The objective of this study is to assess the carbon sequestration potential of the major land use types (LUT) of the Djoli-kera classified forest....

Résumé- La place des emplois verts dans l’amélioration des conditions de vie et dans la préservation de l’environnement est le problème que veut résoudre la présente réflexion. Le terrain qui a servi de cadre d’expérimentation est la forêt néphéliphile qui couvre les versants Est et Ouest des monts Oku dans la région du Nord-Ouest du Cameroun. L’en...

The adverse effects of climatic variations and changes (CVC) are real as evidenced by the unprecedented cyclones that have battered several countries in the tropics in recent times, leaving discernible trails of destruction in their wake. Amongst those bearing the brunt of extreme weather events are smallholder farmers who in the majority lead subs...

Confronted with climate change, farmers are increasingly resorting to sustainable agricultural practices like agroforestry as an adaptation measure to the adverse effects of climate change. In this perspective, this study assessed different agroforestry systems and the components there in, as well as the factors affecting farmers’ choice of agrofor...

The present study aims to analyse the dynamics of land use and land cover in the Melap Forest Reserve in West Cameroon on the basis of a diachronic analysis of Landsat 4 TM, Landsat 7 ETM+ and Landsat 8 OLI_TIRS images for the years 1988, 2000 and 2018 respectively. Satellite images were processed using ENVI and ArcGIS software. The results showed...

Over half of the world’s population depends on smallholder farms for their daily food needs. However, high levels of vulnerability and low levels of resilience to the adverse effects of climatic variations and changes constitute major threats to smallholder farms and farmers. It is within this context that this paper assessed the levels of resilien...

Agriculture is highly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climatic variations and changes (CVC). Smallholder farmers in particular bear the brunt of adverse climate variations and changes. It was within this background that this paper assessed climatic variations and changes, and the drivers of smallholder farmers' vulnerability to adverse climati...

Small-scale farmers’ limited adaptive capacity confronted with the adversities of climate change is a major call for concern considering that small-scale farms feed over half of the world’s population. In this light, small-scale farmers’ adaptive choices and adaptive capacity to climate change were assessed. Data were collected from primary and sec...

Faced with the adverse effects of climate variability and change (CVC), agro-ecological farming practices like agroforestry are crucial especially for smallholder farmers who are extremely vulnerable. It was within this context that this study appraised smallholder farmers' agroforestry practices faced with climate change adversities. Biophysical a...

The study was aimed at contributing to sustainable management of Ajei Highlands Watershed Community Forest, one of the vulnerable and highly threatened biological hotspots remaining within the Cameroon western highlands through an analysis of its woody species diversity and stand structure. The results of inventory of its 12 gallery forest patches...

The impacts of climate variability and change are being felt by various sectors of economic life, especially the agricultural sector. It is for this reason that this study sought to investigate how agro-ecological and climate-smart systems like agroforestry could contribute towards enhancing the resilience of the agricultural sector in general and...

One of the forms of forest management is community forestry which is as an alternative to state-managed conservation. Knowledge of the wood potential and exploitable species is a prerequisite for the sustainable management of a community forest. This study carried out in the Cobaba community forest in Eastern Cameroon aimed to assess the floristic...

This study is part of the environmental impact assessment realised in the deep sea port area of Kribi. Floristic inventory and diversity assessments were necessary to understand the species composition and diversity status of forests, trees biomass and investigate the potential impact of the project. Floristic analysis shows a high Shannon diversit...

This study was carried out in cocoa-based agroforestry systems in Mbam and Inoubou department, Center Region, Cameroon. The study aimed at assessing the plant species diversity, ecological services, and carbon sequestration potentials of diverse trees associated in cocoa agroforestry systems. Twenty-seven sampling plots of 100 × 20 m were establish...

This study was carried out in the teaching and research forest of the University of Dschang in Belabo, with the aim of analysing land-cover and land-use changes as well as carbon stocks dynamic. The databases used are composed of three Landsat satellite images (5TM of 1984, 7ETM þ of 2000 and 8OLI of 2016), enhanced by field missions. Satellite ima...

In order to study the vegetation cover of the Koupa Matapit forest gallery (West-Cameroon), a floristic inventory was carried out on 20 plots of 400m 2. The inventoried species were then characterized according to various attributes (biological, reproductive, morphological, phytogeographic). It appears that the site has a significant floristic rich...

Mount Oku, in North-western Cameroon holds many endemic and restricted-range species. This study identifies factors influencing the species and functional diversity of plant communities in Mount Oku forests. We specifically look at whether the altitudinal gradient, which classically structures the mountain vegetation, has shifted in response to the...

This study assesses land cover change of the Koupa Matapit forest gallery, West Cameroon, in relation to anthropogenic factors. Ethnobotanical surveys were conducted to investigate the relationships between the local population and the gallery forest; the spatio-temporal dynamics of the landscapes around the gallery forest were studied from the dia...

Journal of Applied Biosciences

In order to study the vegetation cover of the Koupa Matapit forest gallery (West-Cameroon), a floristic inventory was carried out on 20 plots of 400m². The inventoried species were then characterized according to various attributes (biological, reproductive, morphological, phytogeographic). It appears that the site has a significant floristic richn...

The aim of this work was to investigate the possible anatomical changes of Garcinia lucida and Scorodophloeus zenkeri after the removal of their bark. Debarking was done on individuals of each species at 1.30 m from the soil. The wound was rectangular in shape with 30 cm side. There was a follow-up every three months for nine months during which th...

This study is part of the environmental impact assessment realised in the deep sea port area of Kribi. Floristic inventory and diversity assessments were necessary to understand the species composition and diversity status of forests, trees biomass and investigate the potential impact of the project. Floristic analysis shows a high Shannon diversit...

L'objectif de cette étude est d'identifier les champignons associés aux semences chez Pericopsis elata et de tester l'effet des substrats sur la germination, la croissance et l'infection des plantules. Ainsi, des échantillons de semences ont été collectés à partir des gousses dans les localités de Mindourou et de Bidou puis, emportés dans le Labora...

Globally, human populations are rapidly converting large blocks of tropical old-growth forests into small forest patches, embedded within human-modified landscapes, consisting mostly of agricultural fields and pasture lands. Mount Oku commonly known as Kilum-Ijim, situated at the North-western Cameroon is recognized as a globally important center o...

Les services de développement impliqués en sylviculture paysanne adoptent souvent des paradigmes tels que : " la plupart des paysans n'envisagent que des productions à court terme, leurs systèmes traditionnels agroforestiers sont immuables ou en voie d'abandon et il n'est possible que de leur proposer des techniques bien rodées, simples et normalis...

Development agencies involved in farm forestry often adopt paradigms on the lines of "most peasant farmers only consider short-term production; their traditional agro-forestry systems have not evolved or are being abandoned; all that can be done is to offer proven, simple or standardised techniques, including plantations of fast-growing exotic spec...

Aux abords de l'École forestière de Mbalmayo au Cameroun, un arboretum a été installé à partir de 1956. Il a été suivi et protégé par plusieurs générations d'enseignants avec l'appui de diverses agences de coopération. À l'occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de sa création, une étude y a été menée sur quinze parcelles afin de mesurer leurs princi...

The arboretum established in 1956 around the Mbalmayo Forestry School in Cameroon has been monitored and cared for by several generations of teaching staff, with the support of various cooperation agencies. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of its creation, a study was carried out in fifteen parcels in order to measure the main dendrometric paramete...

La protection de l’environnement est devenue un enjeu planétaire durant les années 1980. Le discours international sur la gestion durable des forêts tropicales prône la nécessité d’impliquer les populations locales dans la gestion des ressources forestières et fauniques. Au Cameroun, La loi forestière de 1994 offre aux populations locales de nouvel...