Conflict of interest between people and baboons: Crop raiding in Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorHill, C.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialNyakafunjoen
dc.coverage.spatialNyabyeya IIen
dc.coverage.spatialKyempunu villageen
dc.coverage.spatialMasindi Districten
dc.coverage.spatialUgandaen
dc.coverage.temporal1993 - 1994en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:08:31Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:08:31Zen
dc.date.issued2000en
dc.description.abstractMuch has been written about insect damage to standing crops, but an area that has received little attention within agricultural development, conservation, and primatological literature is that of primates and the potential damage they can cause to farmers' fields. This is likely to become an increasingly important issue for people interested in primates, as conservation projects adopt a more integrated approach to take account of local people's perspectives and needs. The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of crop raiding by primates, particularly baboons, on farmers living around the southern edge of the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. I use data gathered during monthly farm surveys and informal discussion groups, along with time budget data, to demonstrate that 1) baboons can cause extensive damage to field crops, such as maize and cassava; 2) proximity of the farm to the forest edge and the presence or absence of neighboring farms affect the likelihood of any farm sustaining crop damage from baboons; and 3) in addition to the direct costs associated with crop losses attributed to baboon foraging activity, there are indirect costs of baboon crop raiding such as increased labor demands to protect crops from them and, occasionally, to replant crop stands badly damaged by baboons. These results have important implications for future primate conservation policy and practice.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier451en
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Primatology 21(2): 299-315en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005481605637en
dc.identifier.issn0164-0291en
dc.identifier.issn1573-8604en
dc.identifier.other451_Conflict_of_Interest_Between_People_and_B.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65514en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherDordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2000 by Plenum Publishing Corporationen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectSocial impactsen
dc.subjectHumid zonesen
dc.subjectSemiarid zonesen
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectSubhumid zonesen
dc.subjectEconomic impactsen
dc.subjectHabitat destructionen
dc.subjectBiodiversity conservationen
dc.subjectHuman-wildlife conflictsen
dc.subjectCrop raidingen
dc.subjectBaboonsen
dc.subjectFarmersen
dc.subjectEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scaleen
dc.titleConflict of interest between people and baboons: Crop raiding in Ugandaen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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