How to Restore Forest Areas in a Smallholder Agriculture-Dominated Country?

Sangare Moussa

Journal of Management and Sustainability, 2017, vol. 7, issue 1, 40-53

Abstract: This study deals with ways of addressing more effectively the problems of forest restoration in a smallholder agriculture-dominated area like the southwest Cote d¡¯Ivoire. An empirical estimation based on a probit model is used to analyze the farmer decisions concerning their eventual participation to the national program of forest development based on a policy of large-scale reforestation. The results show that the main explicative variables of smallholders¡¯ adhesion to this project are agricultural training, ethnic group, access to credit, the age of the head of household and the household¡¯s residence area. Contrary to all expectations, some variables such as literacy, out-farm income, and the status of landowner and whole-time farmer do not explain the decision of smallholder.

Keywords: Cote d¡¯Ivoire; forest management; probit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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