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 ...
Selective logging prevails in tropical forests around the world, posing urgent questions about how t...
The present study relates to the fallow (kapoka) of forest origin in western edge of the for...
Arable weeds are one of the most endangered species groups in Central Europe. Modern agriculture and...
With 10 million hectares, forest covers only 16% of the territory of Madagascar in 2005. Deforestati...
In the Central Menabe region on the west cost of Madagascar, traditional uses of forest resources cr...
This, the first issue in 2010 of the Journal of Madagascar Conservation & Development (MCD), dea...
Madagascar’s high plateau – where people farm, graze cattle, and set periodic fire in a grass domina...
ABSTRACT This article examines discourses of indigeneity and rurality that define and classify diffe...
We present an eco-geographical dataset of the 355 tree species (156 genera, 55 families) found in th...
The climatic patterns of the world are changing and with them the spatial distribution of global ter...
Tropical deforestation and forest degradation (DD) contribute approximately 15% of the annual global...
Dottorato di ricerca in Ecologia forestaleClimate change is perhaps the greatest environmental chall...
The history of conservation policy and practice in Madagascar over the last 30 years shows that the ...
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...
Selective logging prevails in tropical forests around the world, posing urgent questions about how t...
The present study relates to the fallow (kapoka) of forest origin in western edge of the for...
Arable weeds are one of the most endangered species groups in Central Europe. Modern agriculture and...
With 10 million hectares, forest covers only 16% of the territory of Madagascar in 2005. Deforestati...
In the Central Menabe region on the west cost of Madagascar, traditional uses of forest resources cr...
This, the first issue in 2010 of the Journal of Madagascar Conservation & Development (MCD), dea...
Madagascar’s high plateau – where people farm, graze cattle, and set periodic fire in a grass domina...
ABSTRACT This article examines discourses of indigeneity and rurality that define and classify diffe...
We present an eco-geographical dataset of the 355 tree species (156 genera, 55 families) found in th...
The climatic patterns of the world are changing and with them the spatial distribution of global ter...
Tropical deforestation and forest degradation (DD) contribute approximately 15% of the annual global...
Dottorato di ricerca in Ecologia forestaleClimate change is perhaps the greatest environmental chall...
The history of conservation policy and practice in Madagascar over the last 30 years shows that the ...
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...
Selective logging prevails in tropical forests around the world, posing urgent questions about how t...
The present study relates to the fallow (kapoka) of forest origin in western edge of the for...
Arable weeds are one of the most endangered species groups in Central Europe. Modern agriculture and...