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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Deforestation and the limited contribution of forests to rural livelihoods in West Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso and Ghana
Ambio, Volume 41, No. 7, Year 2012
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Description
Forest degradation in West Africa is generally thought to have negative consequences on rural livelihoods but there is little overview of its effects in the region because the importance of forests to rural livelihoods has never been adequately quantified. Based on data from 1014 rural households across Burkina Faso and Ghana this paper attempts to fill this knowledge gap. We demonstrate that agricultural lands and the non-forest environment including parklands are considerably more valuable to poor as well as more well-off rural households than forests. Furthermore, product types supplied by the non-forest environment are almost identical with those from forests. Accordingly, forest clearance/degradation is profitable for and, hence, probably performed by rural people at large. We attribute rural people's high reliance on non-forest versus forest resources to the two countries' restrictive and inequitable forest policies which must be reformed to promote effective forest conservation, e.g., to mitigate climate change. © Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2012.
Authors & Co-Authors
Pouliot, Mariève
Denmark, Copenhagen
Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning
Treue, Thorsten
Denmark, Copenhagen
Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning
Obiri, Beatrice Darko
Ghana, Kumasi
Csir - Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
Ouedraogo, Boukary I.
Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou
University of Ouagadougou
Statistics
Citations: 51
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s13280-012-0292-3
ISSN:
00447447
Research Areas
Environmental
Study Locations
Multi-countries
Burkina Faso
Ghana