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APPLIED GEOGRAPHY
卷 68, 期 -, 页码 9-19出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.12.009
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Shifting cultivation; Land use change; Protected areas; Agricultural intensification; Makira Natural Park; Masoala National Park
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- Centre for Development and Environment
- Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Programme
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
- Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation [400440 152167]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [400440_152167] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Due to its extraordinary biodiversity and rapid deforestation, north-eastern Madagascar is a conservation hotspot of global importance. Reducing shifting cultivation is a high priority for policy-makers and conservationists; however, spatially explicit evidence of shifting cultivation is lacking due to the difficulty of mapping it with common remote sensing methods. To overcome this challenge, we adopted a landscape mosaic approach to assess the changes between natural forests, shifting cultivation and permanent cultivation systems at the regional level from 1995 to 2011. Our study confirmed that shifting cultivation is still being used to produce subsistence rice throughout the region, but there is a trend of intensification away from shifting cultivation towards permanent rice production, especially near protected areas. While large continuous forest exists today only in the core zones of protected areas, the agricultural matrix is still dominated by a dense cover of tree crops and smaller forest fragments. We believe that this evidence makes a crucial contribution to the development of interventions to prevent further conversion of forest to agricultural land while improving local land users' well-being. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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