Livelihood, carbon and spatiotemporal land-use land-cover change in the Yenku forest reserve of Ghana, 2000–2020

Acheampong, Joseph Ofori; Attua, Emmanuel Morgan; Mensah, Moses; Fosu-Mensah, Benedicta Y.; Apambilla, Roland Akuka; Doe, Eric Kofi

doi:10.1016/j.jag.2022.102938

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“…There are five dominant forest-vegetation zones, including wet evergreen rainforest, moist evergreen (dry and thick) forest, moist deciduous (NW and SE types) forest, dry semi-deciduous forest and savannah, and swamp forest and mangrove (Figure 2). The wet evergreen rainforest and the moist evergreen (dry and thick) forests are found in the south and south-west, whereas the swamp forest and mangrove vegetation are commonly found in the south-east [54]. On the other hand, the moist deciduous (NW and SE types) forest and the dry semideciduous forest and savannah are primarily located in the central and northern regions of the country, respectively (Figure 2).…”

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“…The country had high net CO2e emissions between 1990 and 1996, although its sinks rapidly decreased in size [56]. The swift decrease in sinks has been associated with deforestation, particularly a rapid increase in wood energy consumption, timber harvesting, agricultural and settlement expansion, and mining, and low rates of reforestation [54,[57][58][59]. In terms of climatic conditions, the country is characterized by a tropical climate with different wet and dry seasons [60,61].…”

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The Dynamics and Potential of Carbon Stocks as an Indicator of Sustainable Development for Forest Bioeconomy in Ghana

Nyarko,

Nwaogu,

Diagi

et al. 2024

Forests

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Sustainable forest bioeconomy (SFB), as a multidimensional approach for establishing mutual benefits between forest ecosystems, the environment, the economy, and humans, is a nature-based solution for a promising future. The study aims to evaluate the potential of carbon stocks (Cstocks) and variability for SFB. It is hypothesized that the decrease in Cstocks is related to an increase in population and agriculture, which caused a decrease in forest area and growing stock and consequently affected SFB. Primary and secondary data were collected from the field, national, and international databases, and analyzed using some statistical and geospatial software packages including IBM SPSS 29.0, CANOCO 5.0, and ArcGIS 10.5. The results revealed that large forest areas were converted to arable lands between 2000 and 2020. Across the forest zones, the aboveground and belowground Cstocks varied significantly, with the aboveground biomass being higher than the belowground biomass. The main drivers of Cstocks were politics and governance (57%), population growth (50%), soil degradation practices (50%), and socio-cultural beliefs (45%). Cstocks had significant negative correlation with population growth, carbon emissions, forest growing stock, forest loss, and the use of forest for biofuel. Evergreen forest zones (rainforest and moist) had more Cstocks than the moist deciduous and swamp/mangrove forests. The study demonstrated that the variability in Cstocks over the last three decades is attributed to an increase in population and agriculture, but Cstocks variability between the forest-vegetation belts could be better explained by differences in trees abundance than population. The study also revealed that the increase in Cstocks contributed to the realization of many SDGs, especially SDG 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, and 15, which in turn support a sustainable forest bioeconomy. Future study is necessary to evaluate Cstocks in individual tree species, biodiversity, and other forest ecosystem services to promote SFB in the country.

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The Dynamics and Potential of Carbon Stocks as an Indicator of Sustainable Development for Forest Bioeconomy in Ghana

Nyarko,

Nwaogu,

Diagi

et al. 2024

Forests

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“…2020) showed that 8.01 ha of forest lost land cover due to forest degradation in Mayadevi. Agricultural activities, charcoal production, animal hunting, and harvesting of non-timber forest products are the main livelihood activities of local communities, which have an impact on changes in land cover, with forest damage estimated at 1,627 ha (Acheampong et al, 2022). Land cover changes in conservation forests have almost the same cases as protected forests.…”

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“…The change in land cover from vegetated to nonvegetated has an impact on reducing trees in a unit area, reducing soil fertility, and also influencing errancy (Acheampong et al, 2022). Another opinion was expressed that knowing changes in land cover periodically will help identify more sustainable land management strategies, including future policy directions.…”

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Changes in natural forest land cover of the Eucalyptus urophylla type in the Mutis Timau area in 2002-2022, East Nusa Tenggara Province

Marimpan,

Purwanto,

Wardhana

et al. 2024

J. Degrade. Min. Land Manage.

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Anthropogenic activities carried out by communities around forests in production forests, protected forests, and conservation forests have an impact on changes in the land cover of these areas. This impact is difficult to avoid because, on the other hand, production forests and protected forests are in direct contact with the lives of local communities. Changes in land cover have a significant impact on the contribution of Folu Net Sink, which is set by the government at 31.89% in 2030 with its efforts. This research aims to provide an overview of land cover changes that occurred in natural forests of the Eucalyptus urophylla type from 2002 to 2022. The method used in this research is a supervised/guided digital classification technique. Ground checks were also carried out in this research to match the accuracy of the image data with the actual conditions in the field. The research results show that changes in land cover in 2012 and 2017 were very extreme. Forest fires were the cause of changes in land cover during this period. Meanwhile, in 2002, 2007, and 2022, the land cover was still good, in a positive direction. The causes of changes in land cover are encroachment activities, encroachment, illegal logging, firewood theft, rice fields, forest fires, plantations, and farming. Forest preservation provides very high benefits for life on earth. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the welfare of local communities so that they do not damage the forest, as well as increase the capacity to educate the community regarding zoning or blocks in conservation and protected forests. Apart from that, good forest management is needed to ensure forest sustainability in the future.

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“…Los cambios en el uso del terreno en América Latina son procesos cada vez más dinámicos, debido a la interconexión que presentan con los tomadores de decisiones y la población local (Chasia et al, 2023); estas decisiones abarcan desde la disponibilidad de tierras para satisfacer necesidades básicas, las políticas gubernamentales a nivel local, regional y nacional del territorio (Hearn y Álvarez, 2021), de empresarios y pequeños locatarios (Ofori et al, 2022), hasta las demandas del mercado global (Olivera et al, 2023).…”

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El cambio de cobertura y uso del terreno desde el enfoque de la metodología mixta: una revisión de la literatura

Ramírez¹,

Granados²

2023

LATAM

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Este artículo ofrece un análisis de la literatura internacional producido entre el año 2012 y 2022 sobre el abordaje del Cambio de Cobertura y Uso del Terreno (CCUT), a través de una metodología mixta. El fenómeno involucra múltiples interacciones con los factores físicos, sociales, económicos, políticos y culturales. Por esta razón, se requiere comprender de manera integral las causas, efectos y procesos que inducen estos cambios a nivel local y regional. La metodología mixta ofrece una perspectiva de análisis integral que combina datos cuantitativos (teledetección) y cualitativos (percepción social). El objetivo de esta investigación fue la revisión de estudios científicos que utilizan la metodología mixta aplicada al CCUT, para conocer el estado actual del conocimiento sobre los enfoques teóricos, metodológicos, y tendencias en este campo de investigación. Se encontró una literatura limitada en revistas de acceso abierto que aborden la problemática con este enfoque, una diversidad del término “metodología mixta”, no existe información explícita del método en los artículos revisados. Se identificaron herramientas y técnicas más empleadas de la investigación cuantitativa y cualitativa, las estrategias, los alcances y limitaciones que se han reportado en los diversos estudios. Se destaca la capacidad del enfoque metodológico para obtener una comprensión integral de la problemática, debido a que proporciona una información más completa de las causas y los efectos que conducen al CCUT. También se identificó una limitación importante como establecer vínculos previos de confianza con los actores locales para que puedan colaborar en el diseño y ser parte fundamental de la investigación.

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Livelihood, carbon and spatiotemporal land-use land-cover change in the Yenku forest reserve of Ghana, 2000–2020

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

The Dynamics and Potential of Carbon Stocks as an Indicator of Sustainable Development for Forest Bioeconomy in Ghana

The Dynamics and Potential of Carbon Stocks as an Indicator of Sustainable Development for Forest Bioeconomy in Ghana

Changes in natural forest land cover of the Eucalyptus urophylla type in the Mutis Timau area in 2002-2022, East Nusa Tenggara Province

El cambio de cobertura y uso del terreno desde el enfoque de la metodología mixta: una revisión de la literatura

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