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Titel:
Chinese trade and investment and the forests of the Congo Basin
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synthesis of scoping studies in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon
Beschreibung:
Over the past decade, since the implementation of China's 'going abroad' policy, mainland Chinese State-owned and private companies have significantly increased their interests in the resources and investment opportunities of the Congo Basin (CB), bringing new opportunities as well as potential social and environmental costs. This report is a synthesis of some main findings of preliminary scoping studies conducted by CIFOR and partners in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Gabon. It focuses on how Chinese trade and investment in the forestry, mining and agricultural sectors might impact forests and forest-dependent communities in the heavily forested region. The report also relies on studies of trade and investment data and Chinese policies conducted by partners working remotely from China and Germany. All studies were conducted under the CIFOR project 'Chinese trade and investment in Africa: Assessing and governing trade-offs to national economies, local livelihoods and forest ecosystems' initiated in 2010. Cameroon, DRC and Gabon were selected for this study primarily because of the growing importance of the Chinese market for logs and sawnwood in Cameroon and Gabon; and, in DRC, a dramatic growth in mineral exports to China as well as a comparatively high dependency on Chinese investment. The scoping exercise included collection and review of documents and available statistics, key informant interviews and field visits to locations where Chinese projects of interest had been identified ...