Conservation conflicts are most severe in biodiversity hotspots that support extremely high biodiversity yet face considerable threats from deforestation. Those who directly use forest resources for agricultural purposes are often those that are most food insecure, and most reliant on forest ecosystem services. They often have very few alternatives and have to resort to the short-term incentives of forest conversion for food production outweighing the long-term stability of forest resources. This project will use behavioural games to evaluate ex-ante the effect of alternative management strategies on local farmers’ land use decisions and their predisposition to cooperate with conservation interests.

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Where?

In the eastern rainforests of Madagascar

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Who is involved?

Sarobidy Rakotonarivo (University of Stirling)

Nils Bunnefeld (University of Stirling)

Rachel Norman (University of Stirling)

Julie Razafimanahaka (Madagasikara Voakajy, Madagascar)