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Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/10987/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192019
10.1371/journal.pone.0192019
 
Title Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel
 
Creator Malmborg, K
Sinare, H
Kautsky, E E
Ouedraogo, I
Gordon, L J
 
Subject Remote Sensing
GIS Techniques/Remote Sensing
Climate Change
African Agriculture
Africa
Sahel Region
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher Public Library of Science
 
Date 2018-02
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10987/1/Mapping%20regional%20livelihood%20benefits%20from%20local%20ecos....pdf
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