1 Cameroon’s Hidden Harvest: Commercial Chainsaw Logging, Corruption and Livelihoods Paolo Omar Cerutti (Corresponding author) Center for International Forestry Research, Yaoundé, Cameroon and Crawford School of Economics and Government The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia [email protected]; Phone +237 2227449; Fax +237 2227450 Luca Tacconi Crawford School of Economics and Government The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia [email protected]Guillaume Lescuyer Center for International Forestry Research, Yaoundé, Cameroon and Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Montpellier, France [email protected]Robert Nasi Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia [email protected]DRAFT (Please do not quote without permission from the authors) This paper has been made possible by funding from the European Union (project ‘PRO- Formal: Policy and regulatory options to recognise and better integrate the domestic timber sector in tropical countries in the formal economy’). We wish to thank Elena Petkova, Cyrie Sendashonga, Andrew Wardell, and Edith Johnson for their supportive and constructive comments. The usual caveats apply. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations with whom they are associated.
