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DOI	10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108311
	Greening for the greater good: Socio-economic impacts of land restoration in the Great Green Wall
	Campos, Ana Paula de la O.; Petracco, Carly Kathleen; Valli, Elsa; Sitko, Nicholas
通讯作者	Campos, APD
来源期刊	ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
ISSN	0921-8009
EISSN	1873-6106
出版年	2024
卷号	224
英文摘要	Our study examines the mid-term socioeconomic impacts of landscape restoration in highly desertification-prone Northern Nigeria through the Action Against Desertification (AAD) program. AAD implemented large-scale restoration and livelihood development activities aimed at increasing household income generation from restoration efforts and fostering alternative agricultural activities in an improved ecosystem. Using a multimethod strategy, we assess the impacts of landscape restoration at the household level. We leverage prerestoration remote-sensed data and machine learning algorithms to identify comparable land sites to the program's restoration areas. Comparison households are selected from communities bordering these sites, replicating the AAD's targeting process. Our impact evaluation strategy employs the doubly-robust inverseprobability weighting regression adjustment model. Key findings indicate that land restoration activities did not negatively impact participant households' food security levels, despite some communal land use restrictions. Moreover, there was a reduction in moderate food insecurity observed. Household livelihood strategies in restoration areas shifted towards more climate-resilient activities, with decreased reliance on crop sales and increased participation in sales of livestock by-products and high-value Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP). Compared to participants that were involved in the program at a later stage, early participants experienced larger impacts, further validating these findings. Our results highlight the role of participatory approaches to restoration, and the need for multi-scale approaches that include the identification of communities' immediate needs but also, increase market access, to enhance the synergies of restoration's biophysical and socioeconomic outcomes. Our analysis also offers an innovative approach for future ex-post evaluations of land restoration programs. The lack of evidence from rigorous methods is a recurrent issue in environmental interventions.
英文关键词	Desertification Diversification Landscape restoration Food security Income strategies Climate change adaptation
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:001279640400001
WOS关键词	MANAGED NATURAL REGENERATION ; TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS ; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; LIVELIHOODS ; REFORESTATION ; CONSERVATION ; DROUGHT ; DEGRADATION ; SYSTEMS
WOS类目	Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/403353
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Campos, Ana Paula de la O.,Petracco, Carly Kathleen,Valli, Elsa,et al. Greening for the greater good: Socio-economic impacts of land restoration in the Great Green Wall[J],2024,224.
APA	Campos, Ana Paula de la O.,Petracco, Carly Kathleen,Valli, Elsa,&Sitko, Nicholas.(2024).Greening for the greater good: Socio-economic impacts of land restoration in the Great Green Wall.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,224.
MLA	Campos, Ana Paula de la O.,et al."Greening for the greater good: Socio-economic impacts of land restoration in the Great Green Wall".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 224(2024).