The Return of the Water: Restoring the Waza Logone Floodplain in Cameroon |
Contents
Conflicts and Conflict Management in the Waza Logone Floodplain | 8 |
The Need for Increased Rice Production | 13 |
Consequences of the Dam and the Drought | 19 |
The Wider Context | 27 |
Hydrology of the Waza Logone Area | 33 |
The Natural Resources of the Waza Logone Floodplain | 39 |
The Intervention | 53 |
19 | 59 |
33 | 83 |
The Waza Logone Project in Action | 89 |
35 | 92 |
Economic Justification of Additional Floodplain Reinundation | 105 |
36 | 113 |
Tools and Practices for Floodplain Restoration | 125 |
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40 | 152 |
Common terms and phrases
Acacia seyal activities Africa agriculture animals annual assess average biodiversity birds Bongor Cameroon cattle Chari River communities conflicts conservation costs crops downstream dry season ecological economic benefits ecosystem approach elephants embankments environmental estimated Figure fishermen fishers fishing canals flooded area floodwater Fulbe grazing hectare herders herds household hydrological impact implementation increase institutions inundation irrigation IUCN km² Kotoko Kouokam Kousseri Lake Chad Lake Chad Basin Lamido livelihoods livestock Logone River loss management plan Maroua monitoring Mott MacDonald Musgum N'Djamena natural resources Nigeria nomadic pastoralists Organisation park authorities pasture perennial grasses Photo pilot flood releases pilot release population Pouss production programme rainfall re-flooding release options restoration rice scheme Sahelian Scholte sedentary Shuwa Arabs soil sorghum species stakeholders sustainable Tchamba traditional transhumance vegetation village Vrick Waza Logone area Waza Logone floodplain Waza Logone project Waza Logone region Waza National Park wetland wildlife Yagoua zone