Mapping changes in land use/land cover and prediction of future extension of bowé in Benin, West Africa

Role of termites in the restoration of soils and plant richness on bowé in West Africa

“…The Sudanian region covers 6.7 mill ha in Benin. The type of land where bowé occur (farmland and degraded savannah in the Sudanian zone) increased at a rate of 10 ha/year in the period 1990–2010 with 53% of the region converted to degraded savannah and farmland (Padonou, Lykke, Bachmann, Idohou, & Sinsin, 2017). Bowalization would persist and increase in the future if no restoration action is taken.…”

Land use/land cover patterns and challenges to sustainable management of the Mono transboundary biosphere reserve between Togo and Benin, West Africa

“…In the RBTM landscape, studying the nature, extent, and structure of land conversions, allows understanding the changes in forest cover and their consequences to be evaluated in order to develop sustainable strategies for biodiversity conservation. Land cover dynamics and land use are essential inputs for establishing a reliable environmental database for applications ranging from the production of environmental statistics, monitoring of forest cover, identification of biodiversity conservation sites, assessment of land degradation index and modeling of spatial dynamics for making future projections (Oloukoi et al, 2006;Bouko et al, 2007;Padonou et al, 2017). Based on remote sensing technologies and satellite data coupled with field investigations, this paper is aimed at: (i) establishing a land cover and a land use baseline for the RTBM, and (ii) analyzing the dynamics of land-use patterns in the period 1986 to 2015 in this area allowing to evaluate different trends in the evolution of the natural landscape.…”

Comparative Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Change and Watershed Urbanization in the Lakeside Counties of the Kenyan Lake Victoria Basin Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

“…In US cities, increased non-point-source pollution from various degrees of urbanization has been reported [25]. In the developing world, dwindling biological resources diversity in rural areas of Ethiopia and Eritrea, which are experiencing overgrazing and encroachment by farms has been mapped [26]; widespread desertification and land degradation has been reported in Benin [27] while major changes in land use and cover have caused environmental problems in catchment areas in Tanzania, including drying of streams and rivers [28]. Kenya, like many African countries whose economy is heavily dependent on agricultural production and exploitation of natural resources such as forests, is facing land use and land cover change challenge [29].…”