Cocoa crops are destroying the forest reserves of the classified forest of Haut-Sassandra (Ivory Coast)

Gestion des forêts domaniales en période de conflits : cas de la forêt classée du Haut-Sassandra, Centre-Ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire

“…Les résultats de cette étude ont mis en évidence la régression des surfaces forestières dans la forêt classée du Haut-Sassandra pendant la période de conflits au profit des classes « Forêt dégradée -culture » et « Sol nu -habitat ». Les transformations des couverts forestiers dans cet espace protégé sont essentiellement dues à la mise en place des cultures dominées par les cacaoyers (Assalé et al, 2016 ;Barima et al, 2016). Les cultures sont ainsi les principales causes du recul du couvert forestier en Afrique comme l'ont souligné Tente et al (2011) en ce qui concerne le Bénin.…”

Cashew Nut is Reshaping the Rural Landscape of the Seguela Sub-Prefecture (Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire)

“…This has required satellite imagery from different dates. The advantage of using remote sensing in diachronic studies of land use dynamics is well established [19][20]. The maps resulting from satellite image processing that we used have very satisfactory mapping accuracy rates overall with Kappa values above 0.90.…”

Phenological analysis of the savanna–forest transition from 1981 to 2006 from Côte d’Ivoire to Benin with NDVI NOAA time series

“…In order to enlighten temporal decennial trends and particularly the difference between the drought and the wetter period between and after 1994 (Nicholson, 2005) in addition to the massive deforestation observed in this area (Barima et al, 2016), the mean of each 15-day unit (1-15th January, 16-31th January etc.) has been calculated over the 1982-1994 period and over the 1995-2006 period.…”

“…When studying vegetation changes, special attention has often been paid to the forest-savanna interface in space and time, from Aubréville (1949) to Barima (2009) and Barima et al (2016). Among the anthropic factors of change in the vegetation cover, those related to armed conflicts are being studied in the context of a multidisciplinary and international program titled "Landscape dynamics during political/military crises in Côte d'Ivoire: influence on the management and availability of farmland and food security", of which this paper is part.…”

“…Among the anthropic factors of change in the vegetation cover, those related to armed conflicts are being studied in the context of a multidisciplinary and international program titled "Landscape dynamics during political/military crises in Côte d'Ivoire: influence on the management and availability of farmland and food security", of which this paper is part. It concerns the Côte d'Ivoire armed conflict in the first decade of twenty-first century (Barima et al, 2016). Landscape dynamics related to this conflict and its consequences are being studied in this research program through a series of hypotheses the first of which -tested here -is that the dynamics of savannization of the vegetation, which began decades ago, has increased strongly after the years 2000.…”