Malmborg, K and Sinare, H and Kautsky, E E and Ouedraogo, I and Gordon, L J (2018) Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel. PLoS One (TSI), 13 (2). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1932-6203
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Abstract
Most current approaches to landscape scale ecosystem service assessments rely on detailed secondary data. This type of data is seldom available in regions with high levels of poverty and strong local dependence on provisioning ecosystem services for livelihoods. We develop a method to extrapolate results from a previously published village scale ecosystem services assessment to a higher administrative level, relevant for land use decision making. The method combines remote sensing (using a hybrid classification method) and interviews with community members. The resulting landscape scale maps show the spatial distribution of five different livelihood benefits (nutritional diversity, income, insurance/saving, material assets and energy, and crops for consumption) that illustrate the strong multifunctionality of the Sahelian landscapes. The maps highlight the importance of a diverse set of sub-units of the landscape in supporting Sahelian livelihoods. We see a large potential in using the resulting type of livelihood benefit maps for guiding future land use decisions in the Sahel.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Research Program : West & Central Africa |
| CRP: | CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sahelian landscapes, livelihood benefits, ecosystem services, Sahel, smallholder farming, village landscapes, social-ecological patches, remote sensing |
| Subjects: | Others > Remote Sensing Others > GIS Techniques/Remote Sensing Others > Climate Change Others > African Agriculture Others > Africa Others > Sahel Region |
| Depositing User: | Mr Ramesh K |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2018 10:23 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2018 10:23 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/10987 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192019 |
| Projects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Acknowledgement: | The research was funded from the following sources: Grant to conduct fieldwork through the Minor Field Studies programme funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (http://www.sida.se/) received by KM; Grant “Adapting to changing climate in drylands: The re-greening in Sahel as a potential success case” from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SWE-2008-148) and Vetenskapsrådet (SWE-2012-115, http://www.vr.se/) received by LG and EEK; Grant “Targeting Agricultural Innovation and Ecosystem Service Management in the Northern Volta basin” from the Innovation Fund within the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (https://wle.cgiar.org/) received by LG and EEK; Core funding to the Stockholm Resilience Centre from the Swedish Foundation For Strategic Environmental Research (http://www.mistra.org/) given to KM, HS, EEK, LG; funding from Ebba och Sven Schwartz Stiftelse (https://schwartzstiftelse.com/) received by LG; and support by funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency for the GRAID Programme at the Stockholm Resilience Centre to HS and EEK. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank Korodjouma Ouattara, Desiré Kaboré and Elinor Holén for invaluable help and support during fieldwork, and Reinette Biggs for commenting on an earlier draft of this paper. Data collection and some of the method development was conducted as part of the M.Sc. thesis “Identifying ecotopes on a regional scale in Burkina Faso” |
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