While community forestry has shown promise to reduce rural poverty, improve reforestation and potentially offset carbon emissions, many projects have failed, either partly or completely.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksNovember, 2015Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
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Sustainability
Peer-reviewed publicationJanuary, 2015CameroonThe present study aims to explore economic and socio-demographic factors that influence a household’s probability to switch from firewood to cleaner fuels (kerosene and LPG) in northern Cameroon. The paper employs an ordered probit model to construct cooking patterns and fuel choices. Three main cooking sources are considered: firewood, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas. Utilized data are derived from a national survey conducted in 2004 by the Cameroonian National Institute of Statistics.
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Peer-reviewed publicationJanuary, 2015South AfricaEnvironmental safety is one of the top policy priorities in some developing countries. This study analyzed the factors influencing waste disposal and recycling by households in South Africa. The data were collected by Statistics South Africa in 2012 during the General Household Survey (GHS). Analysis of the data was carried out with the Bivariate Probit model. The results showed that 56.03% and 31.98% of all the households disposed waste through local authority/private companies and own refuse dump sites, respectively.
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Forests
Peer-reviewed publicationJanuary, 2015MadagascarAchieving forest conservation together with poverty alleviation and equity is an unending challenge in the tropics. The Makira REDD+ pilot project located in northeastern Madagascar is a well-suited case to explore this challenge in conditions of extreme poverty and climatic vulnerability. We assessed the potential effect of project siting on the livelihoods of the local population and which households would be the most strongly impacted by conservation measures.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2015Ethiopia
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2015Malawi
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2015South Africa
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2015Ghana
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2015Ghana
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2015Malawi
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