Rural agroforestry landscapes in West and Central Africa face a number of threats. Since decades, the ever escalating … bushmeat crisis is pushing populations of threatened wildlife closer to extinction in many parts of West and Central Africa. In …

This book explores how environmental policies are made and enforced in Africa. Specifically, this project explains the … gap between intent and impact of forest policies, focusing on three African societies facing persistent deforestation … today: Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda. The central claim of the study is that deforestation persists because conservation …

Charcoal production to meet the cooking needs of urban households is one of the leading causes of deforestation and … degradation of Africa’s tropical forests. We randomly distributed Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves to urban households in … deforestation and CO2 emission. We find that the treatment group reduced charcoal consumption by 30% 15 months after the …