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The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa
For decades, the dynamics of tropical deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have defied easy explanation. The rates of deforestation have been lower than elsewhere in the tropics, and the driving forces evident in other places, government new land settlement schemes and industrialized agricultur...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23878341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0405 |
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description | For decades, the dynamics of tropical deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have defied easy explanation. The rates of deforestation have been lower than elsewhere in the tropics, and the driving forces evident in other places, government new land settlement schemes and industrialized agriculture, have largely been absent in SSA. The context and causes for African deforestation become clearer through an analysis of new, national-level data on forest cover change for SSA countries for the 2000–2005 period. The recent dynamic in SSA varies from dry to wet biomes. Deforestation occurred at faster rates in nations with predominantly dry forests. The wetter Congo basin countries had lower rates of deforestation, in part because tax receipts from oil and mineral industries in this region spurred rural to urban migration, declines in agriculture and increased imports of cereals from abroad. In this respect, the Congo basin countries may be experiencing an oil and mineral fuelled forest transition. Small farmers play a more important role in African deforestation than they do in southeast Asia and Latin America, in part because small-scale agriculture remains one of the few livelihoods open to rural peoples. |
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spelling | pubmed-37200322013-09-05 The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa Rudel, Thomas K. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Articles For decades, the dynamics of tropical deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have defied easy explanation. The rates of deforestation have been lower than elsewhere in the tropics, and the driving forces evident in other places, government new land settlement schemes and industrialized agriculture, have largely been absent in SSA. The context and causes for African deforestation become clearer through an analysis of new, national-level data on forest cover change for SSA countries for the 2000–2005 period. The recent dynamic in SSA varies from dry to wet biomes. Deforestation occurred at faster rates in nations with predominantly dry forests. The wetter Congo basin countries had lower rates of deforestation, in part because tax receipts from oil and mineral industries in this region spurred rural to urban migration, declines in agriculture and increased imports of cereals from abroad. In this respect, the Congo basin countries may be experiencing an oil and mineral fuelled forest transition. Small farmers play a more important role in African deforestation than they do in southeast Asia and Latin America, in part because small-scale agriculture remains one of the few livelihoods open to rural peoples. The Royal Society 2013-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3720032/ /pubmed/23878341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0405 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ © 2013 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Rudel, Thomas K. The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa |
title | The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_full | The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_fullStr | The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_short | The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_sort | national determinants of deforestation in sub-saharan africa |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23878341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0405 |
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