FOREQUAL: The forestry sector as an inequality machine? Agents, agreements and global politics of trade and investment in the Congo Basin

Contact: Dr. Symphorien Ongolo

Research Assistant: Alexandra Rasoamanana


Description:
FOREQUAL is an interdisciplinary project that engage several North and
South University including our working group to work on the question: who – and whose society –
benefits from ongoing deforestation and forest concessions in the tropics? Using global and historic
data to gain an understanding of the inequalities embedded in trade and investment patterns in
relation to forests and forested land in the Global South, and the mechanisms that produce and
reproduce these inequalities. We will focus on the Congo Basin, specifically Cameroon and DRC,
and the former colonial empires in Europe and China, as a new ‘external partner. For more
information: http://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/projectDetails.do?siteLanguage=en&ref=96964


Financial support: Volkswagenstiftung


Effective start/end date: 01/01/2020 → 31/12/2025


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