With 10 million hectares, forest covers only 16% of the territory of Madagascar in 2005. Deforestation is attaining alarming proportions and is recognized as a major environmental problem. This process has recently accelerated, particularly in the southwest of the country. The main factor promoting deforestation is slash-and-burn maize cultivation. Pioneer agriculture is developing rapidly at the expense of the forest. Loss of forest is linked to several factors: demographic pressure caused by immigration, saturation of the most fertile lands, the relaxation of state regulations on forest clearing, and above all the role of maize cultivation associated with a booming export market. The maize fever causes irreversible destruction of the dry ...
As the Copenhagen negotiations on the form of post Kyoto mechanisms to tackle climate change approac...
Dès le début du xxe siècle, la législation forestière coloniale à Madagascar a, par la mise en place...
Nous avons comparé la richesse en composés phénoliques et en alcaloïdes de six massifs forestiers tr...
With 10 million hectares, forest covers only 16% of the territory of Madagascar in 2005. Deforestati...
Selective logging prevails in tropical forests around the world, posing urgent questions about how t...
Preserving Earth’s biodiversity is one of the central challenges to global sustainability, and the t...
Madagascar’s population relies almost exclusively on solid biomass, i.e., firewood and charcoal, for...
The Montagne des Français is a limestone massif in northern Madagascar, which is characterised by a ...
L’article centre son propos sur la question du « foncier environnement » en analysant les interféren...
thèse en co-tutelle entre les universités de Nantes (France) et d'Antananarivo (Madagascar).Summary ...
This paper provides a retrospective account of efforts, from 2007 to 2013, to establish a community-...
Massive hill slope erosion in Madagascar is represented by the widespread gullies called ‘lavaka’. L...
The history of conservation policy and practice in Madagascar over the last 30 years shows that the ...
Contiguous forests in Madagascar are continuously converted into forest fragments due to deforestati...
This paper explores local experiences of private-sector led community-based nature conservation near...
As the Copenhagen negotiations on the form of post Kyoto mechanisms to tackle climate change approac...
Dès le début du xxe siècle, la législation forestière coloniale à Madagascar a, par la mise en place...
Nous avons comparé la richesse en composés phénoliques et en alcaloïdes de six massifs forestiers tr...
With 10 million hectares, forest covers only 16% of the territory of Madagascar in 2005. Deforestati...
Selective logging prevails in tropical forests around the world, posing urgent questions about how t...
Preserving Earth’s biodiversity is one of the central challenges to global sustainability, and the t...
Madagascar’s population relies almost exclusively on solid biomass, i.e., firewood and charcoal, for...
The Montagne des Français is a limestone massif in northern Madagascar, which is characterised by a ...
L’article centre son propos sur la question du « foncier environnement » en analysant les interféren...
thèse en co-tutelle entre les universités de Nantes (France) et d'Antananarivo (Madagascar).Summary ...
This paper provides a retrospective account of efforts, from 2007 to 2013, to establish a community-...
Massive hill slope erosion in Madagascar is represented by the widespread gullies called ‘lavaka’. L...
The history of conservation policy and practice in Madagascar over the last 30 years shows that the ...
Contiguous forests in Madagascar are continuously converted into forest fragments due to deforestati...
This paper explores local experiences of private-sector led community-based nature conservation near...
As the Copenhagen negotiations on the form of post Kyoto mechanisms to tackle climate change approac...
Dès le début du xxe siècle, la législation forestière coloniale à Madagascar a, par la mise en place...
Nous avons comparé la richesse en composés phénoliques et en alcaloïdes de six massifs forestiers tr...