Deforestation in Cameroon: Immediate causes and consequences

dc.contributor.authorGbetnkom, D.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialCameroonen
dc.coverage.temporal1970 - 2000en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:06Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:06Zen
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe effects of deforestation in Cameroon such as the erosion of agricultural lands, drying up water bodies during dry seasons, desertification, disappearance of plant and animal species, modifications of both local and regional climatic conditions and global warming through its effect on the global carbon cycle are likely to affect agricultural activities and economic growth. This paper investigates the immediate causes and consequences of deforestation in Cameroon between 1970 and 2000. Quantitative estimates show that coffee, and cocoa producer prices, food crop prices, and the timber export price index, on the one hand, and the oil boom, the structural adjustment policies, and the devaluation of the CFAfranc, on the other hand, are quite important in stimulating the clearing of forests. Equally, the agricultural value added per hectare increases the profitability of maintaining forests. The implication of these results is that the importance of non-forest policies is under-appreciated in Cameroon.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier830en
dc.identifier.citationEnvironmental and Development Economics 10: 557-572en
dc.identifier.issn1355-770Xen
dc.identifier.issn1469-4395en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65745en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rights2005 Cambridge University Pressen
dc.subjectEconomic policyen
dc.subjectBiodiversityen
dc.subjectDeforestationen
dc.subjectTree cropsen
dc.subjectSoil erosionen
dc.subjectCameroonen
dc.subjectSpeciesen
dc.subjectCoffeeen
dc.subjectCocoaen
dc.subjectFood cropsen
dc.subjectTimber cropsen
dc.subjectStructural adjustment policiesen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleDeforestation in Cameroon: Immediate causes and consequencesen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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