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Household economy, forest dependency & opportunity costs of conservation in eastern rainforests of Madagascar

Poudyal, Mahesh, Rakotonarivo, O. Sarobidy, Razafimanahaka, Julie H., Hockley, Neal, Jones, Julia P. G. (2018) Household economy, forest dependency & opportunity costs of conservation in eastern rainforests of Madagascar. Scientific Data, 5 . Article Number 180225. E-ISSN 2052-4463. (doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.225) (KAR id:90689)

Abstract

The Government of Madagascar is trying to reduce deforestation and conserve biodiversity through creating new protected areas in the eastern rainforests. While this has many benefits, forest use restriction may bring costs to farmers at the forest frontier. We explored this through a series of surveys in five sites around the Corridor Ankeniheny Zahamena new protected area and adjacent national parks. In phase one a stratified random sample of 603 households completed a household survey covering demographic and socio-economic characteristics, and a choice experiment to estimate the opportunity costs of conservation. A stratified sub-sample (n=171) then completed a detailed agricultural survey (including recording inputs and outputs from 721 plots) and wild-harvested product survey. The data have been archived with ReShare (UK Data Service). Together these allow a deeper understanding of the household economy on the forest frontier in eastern Madagascar and their swidden agricultural system, the benefits households derive from the forests through wild-harvested products, and the costs of conservation restrictions to forest edge communities.The Government of Madagascar is trying to reduce deforestation and conserve biodiversity through creating new protected areas in the eastern rainforests. While this has many benefits, forest use restriction may bring costs to farmers at the forest frontier. We explored this through a series of surveys in five sites around the Corridor Ankeniheny Zahamena new protected area and adjacent national parks. In phase one a stratified random sample of 603 households completed a household survey covering demographic and socio-economic characteristics, and a choice experiment to estimate the opportunity costs of conservation. A stratified sub-sample (n=171) then completed a detailed agricultural survey (including recording inputs and outputs from 721 plots) and wild-harvested product survey. The data have been archived with ReShare (UK Data Service). Together these allow a deeper understanding of the household economy on the forest frontier in eastern Madagascar and their swidden agricultural system, the benefits households derive from the forests through wild-harvested products, and the costs of conservation restrictions to forest edge communities.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1038/sdata.2018.225
Additional information: Unmapped bibliographic data: M3 - Article [Field not mapped to EPrints] U2 - 10.1038/sdata.2018.225 [Field not mapped to EPrints] JO - Scientific Data [Field not mapped to EPrints]
Uncontrolled keywords: sustainability; socioeconomic scenarios
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Depositing User: Mahesh Poudyal
Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2021 12:43 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 17:10 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/90689 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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