How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar?

How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar?

Conservation and development are intricately linked. The international donor community has long provided aid to tropical countries in an effort to alleviate poverty and conserve biodiversity. While hundreds of millions of $ have been invested in over 500 environmental-based projects in Madagascar du...

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Main Authors: Waeber, Patrick O., Wilmé, Lucienne, Mercier, Jean-Roger, Camara, Christian, Lowry, Porter P.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988661/
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spelling pubmed-49886612016-08-29 How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar? Waeber, Patrick O. Wilmé, Lucienne Mercier, Jean-Roger Camara, Christian Lowry, Porter P. Research Article Conservation and development are intricately linked. The international donor community has long provided aid to tropical countries in an effort to alleviate poverty and conserve biodiversity. While hundreds of millions of $ have been invested in over 500 environmental-based projects in Madagascar during the period covered by a series of National Environmental Action Plans (1993–2008) and the protected areas network has expanded threefold, deforestation remains unchecked and none of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) established for 2000–2015 were likely be met. Efforts to achieve sustainable development had failed to reduce poverty or deliver progress toward any of the MDGs. Cross-sectorial policy adjustments are needed that (i) enable and catalyze Madagascar’s capacities rather than deepening dependency on external actors such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and donor countries, and that (ii) deliver improvements to the livelihoods and wellbeing of the country’s rural poor. Public Library of Science 2016-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4988661/ /pubmed/27532499 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161115 Text en © 2016 Waeber et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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author Waeber, Patrick O.
Wilmé, Lucienne
Mercier, Jean-Roger
Camara, Christian
Lowry, Porter P.
spellingShingle Waeber, Patrick O.
Wilmé, Lucienne
Mercier, Jean-Roger
Camara, Christian
Lowry, Porter P.
How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar?
author_facet Waeber, Patrick O.
Wilmé, Lucienne
Mercier, Jean-Roger
Camara, Christian
Lowry, Porter P.
author_sort Waeber, Patrick O.
title How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar?
title_short How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar?
title_full How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar?
title_fullStr How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar?
title_full_unstemmed How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar?
title_sort how effective have thirty years of internationally driven conservation and development efforts been in madagascar?
description Conservation and development are intricately linked. The international donor community has long provided aid to tropical countries in an effort to alleviate poverty and conserve biodiversity. While hundreds of millions of $ have been invested in over 500 environmental-based projects in Madagascar during the period covered by a series of National Environmental Action Plans (1993–2008) and the protected areas network has expanded threefold, deforestation remains unchecked and none of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) established for 2000–2015 were likely be met. Efforts to achieve sustainable development had failed to reduce poverty or deliver progress toward any of the MDGs. Cross-sectorial policy adjustments are needed that (i) enable and catalyze Madagascar’s capacities rather than deepening dependency on external actors such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and donor countries, and that (ii) deliver improvements to the livelihoods and wellbeing of the country’s rural poor.
publisher Public Library of Science
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