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School attendance rises and disease falls in the Bagyeli/Bakola communities

Indigenous Bagyeli and Bakola communities in Cameroon are highly marginalised, and most live in poverty.  High levels of illiteracy have hindered their efforts to claim their rights to forests and resources (non-timber forest products), and the forests where they live are being lost through logging and the expansion of agriculture. Within the framework of the [...]

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