Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Jonas;
Chaupain-Guillot, Sabine;
Ndiaye, Youba;
Sonwa, Denis Jean;
Yana Njabo, Kevin;
Delacote, Philippe;
(2024)
Cocoa, livelihoods, and deforestation within the Tridom landscape in the Congo Basin: A spatial analysis.
PLoS ONE
, 19
(6)
, Article e0302598. 10.1371/journal.pone.0302598.
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Abstract
In the context of emerging international trade regulations on deforestation-free commodities, the drivers of households’ deforestation in conservation landscapes are of interest. The role of households’ livelihood strategies including cocoa production, and the effects of human-elephant conflict are investigated. Using a unique dataset from a survey of 1035 households in the Tridom landscape in the Congo basin, the spatial autoregressive model shows that: (1) Households imitate the deforestation decisions of their neighbors; (2) A marginally higher income from cocoa production-based livelihood portfolios is associated with six to seven times higher deforestation compared to other livelihood strategies with a significant spillover effect on neighboring households’ deforestation. The increase in income, mainly from cocoa production-based livelihoods in open-access systems can have a negative effect on forests. Households with a higher share of auto-consumption are associated with lower deforestation. If economic development brings better market access and lower auto-consumption shares, this is likely to positively influence deforestation. Without proper land use planning/zoning associated with incentives, promoting sustainable agriculture, such as complex cocoa agroforestry systems, may lead to forest degradation and deforestation.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Cocoa, livelihoods, and deforestation within the Tridom landscape in the Congo Basin: A spatial analysis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0302598 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302598 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright: © 2024 Ngouhouo-Poufoun et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195158 |
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