Roads and livelihood activity choices in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: Road development is occurring at an unprecedented rate in important conservation areas in tropical countries with limited understanding of how local people will adjust their livelihood activities in response. We use a discrete choice experiment to explore the effect of road development on respondents ex-ante preferences for changes in livelihood activities-crop and livestock production, hunting and trading bushmeat, and business and wage employment-under different incentives-provision of loans, livestock and crop extension services-in scenarios with reduced travel time to nearest district town in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem in Tanzania. We test four hypotheses about the effects of roads with opposing implication for conservation. Hypothesis 1 predicts that increased market access will

SUBMITTER: Walelign SZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6407761 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature