Marguerite Belobo Belibi is an international gender expert with a focus on community forestry and the development of non-timber forest product value chains. In this capacity she facilitates forest users to form grassroots and higher level organizations, to build technical and organizational capacities and access markets. Currently project manager of the SNV Cocoa-Eco Project in Cameroon, her work with cocoa farming communities supports cooperative development, market access and local capacities in REDD+ techniques. Maguy's work recently featured in “Global Trends in Land Tenure Reform: Gender Impacts” published by Routledge.
By Marguerite Belobo Belibi and Judith van Eijnatten. Editing by Emma Boles. “We collect fruits, seeds, and nuts from the forest floor, and we stock them in our homes to ...