Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda

This paper investigates if and howthe establishment of private commercial forest plantations in degraded forestreserves can conserve natural forests in Uganda. It uses difference-in-difference and decomposition analyses onhousehold data collected from intervention and control villages in the neighbo...

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Main Authors: Ainembabazi, John H., Angelsen, A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75922
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author Ainembabazi, John H.
Angelsen, A.
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description This paper investigates if and howthe establishment of private commercial forest plantations in degraded forestreserves can conserve natural forests in Uganda. It uses difference-in-difference and decomposition analyses onhousehold data collected from intervention and control villages in the neighborhood of forest reserves. We findthat commercial forest plantations are weakly effective in conserving natural forests. The reduction in forest useis unevenly distributed across households depending on location and resource endowments such as farmlandand livestock. The results suggest that the conservation effectiveness can be enhanced by complementary interventionsthat change characteristics that reduce forest use, such as more education for forest users.
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spelling CGSpace759222024-05-01T08:19:21Z Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda Ainembabazi, John H. Angelsen, A. extraction conservation natural forests This paper investigates if and howthe establishment of private commercial forest plantations in degraded forestreserves can conserve natural forests in Uganda. It uses difference-in-difference and decomposition analyses onhousehold data collected from intervention and control villages in the neighborhood of forest reserves. We findthat commercial forest plantations are weakly effective in conserving natural forests. The reduction in forest useis unevenly distributed across households depending on location and resource endowments such as farmlandand livestock. The results suggest that the conservation effectiveness can be enhanced by complementary interventionsthat change characteristics that reduce forest use, such as more education for forest users. 2014-03 2016-07-04T08:15:27Z 2016-07-04T08:15:27Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75922 en Limited Access Elsevier Ainembabazi, J.H. & Angelsen, A. (2014). Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda. Forest Policy and Economics, 40, 48-56.
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Ainembabazi, John H.
Angelsen, A.
Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda
title Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda
title_full Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda
title_fullStr Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda
title_full_unstemmed Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda
title_short Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda
title_sort do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests evidence from forest policy reforms in uganda
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