This case study, from Anivorano, a village in Madagascar, illustrates the use of RRA to study issues of land and tree tenure, and village resource management. It is one of a series of studies carried out during a year -long research programme intended to inform a policy debate on land use and tenure in Madagascar. The first part of the study discusses the emchanics of carying out a an RRA, while the second focuses on what the team learned during the field research. Deforestation is expolained as a twin process, the result of increasing pressure on existing production systems (mainly rice), as well as the disappearance of the environmnetally sound customary tenure sustem. Tentative policy recommendations to show the rate of deforestation are presented in a final section.
Publication year:
1995