Jonas Poufoun Ngouhouo

• Ph.D. in Economics
• Senior Research Fellow - Natural Ressource Economist at University College London

The purpose of this paper is to determine and characterize the social and cultural preferences for endangered forest elephants’ conservation in the Congo Basin’s Tridom landscape. The paper uses data from a 2014 representative face-to-face survey with a stratified random sample of 1035, in 108 villages in the Cameroonian and the Gabonese part of th...

The study presented in this article focuses on firewood and charcoal in Cameroon. The study analyses subnational secondary data combined in some cases with additional collected data on firewood and charcoal consumption as well as their market prices. The findings estimate a total consumption of 2.2 million metric tons for firewood and 356,530 metri...

In Central Africa, trophy hunting constitutes an incentive-based approach for sustainable wildlife management. We collected data from the wildlife administration, safari hunting enterprises and local wildlife management committees, to provide an order of magnitude of the financial performance of this sector in Cameroon. In 2012, trophy hunting was...

Cameroon's for est sector has for many decades been characterized by industrial, large-scale, concession-based and export-oriented timber production. Over the past two decades, many innovative regulations have been adopted that largely responded to the external requests of the country's technical and financial partners. By using data and informatio...

Despite the effectiveness of home water treatment methods, this practice is not yet widespread in many countries, including Cameroon. This study analyses the determinants of the avoidance behaviour of households to cope with unsafe drinking water in the cities of Douala and Yaoundé in Cameroon. The study is based on primary data collected in 2013 f...

To achieve a transformation of the food system, it is essential to understand the factors and circumstances that shape the adoption of optimal combinations of agroecological practices. In this contribution, we aim to describe the nature of the advisory services and their function in promoting the shift towards agroecology through the operation of e...

In the context of emerging international trade regulations on deforestation-free commodities, the drivers of households’ deforestation in conservation landscapes are of interest. The role of households’ livelihood strategies including cocoa production, and the effects of human-elephant conflict are investigated. Using a unique dataset from a survey...

The Values Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science- Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that multiple valuation methods and approaches exist to assess diverse value types. The evidence is based on the largest review of academic valuation studies on nature to date, developed for the Values Assessment of the Intergovernme...

Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis³ still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property ri...

While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution on the environment and on people. The sustainable development goals (SDGs), though seeing trade as a means to support their achievem...

Establishing protected areas creates an opportunity to reduce deforestation. This study aims to inform the Congolese gov-ernment's efforts to promote forest and biodiversity conservation by assessing the effectiveness of the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (YBR) in reducing deforestation. Group and individual interviews designed to understand the causes...

While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution. Previous frameworks have primarily focused on trade effects on environmental conditions in production regions, as well as economic...

We compare individual risk preferences elicited through a classic Ordered Lottery Selection (OLS) procedure with five gambles, and an extended procedure composed of nine gambles. The research question is about the consistency of the risk preferences across these two elicitation variants. We implemented a field experiment with 1002 rural households...

We compare individual's risk preferences elicited through a classical Ordered Lottery Selection (OLS) procedure with five gambles, eliciting risk neutrality and risk aversion, and an extended one composed with nine gambles, and eliciting risk loving, in addition to risk neutrality and risk aversion. In particular, we focus our analysis on the indiv...

This study aims to investigate the demand for improved water quality in Cameroon by analysing the determinants of household averting actions to cope with unsafe drinking water. The study is based on primary data collected in 2013 from a sample of 789 households in the cities of Douala and Yaoundé, Cameroon. The econometric approach used in the stud...

This thesis investigates the key drivers of rural households’ choices of livelihoods, and how these choices impact forest clearing and biodiversity conservation under a landscape approach. Using a novel and unique database obtained from a face-to-face survey with a representative sample of 1035 households in the Dja-Odzala-Minkébé trinational trans...

This paper seeks to determine and characterize social and cultural preferences for the conservation of endangered forest elephants (EFEs) in the Congo Basins Tridom Landscape. Using unique data from a stratified, random, face-to-face survey with 1,035 households in 108 villages in 2014, we combine double-bounded dichotomous choice with open-ended e...

This paper investigates the relation between livelihood and deforestation in the Tridom landscape Congo Basin. Firstly, it evaluates the livelihood assets provided by small-scale farming and forest-based activities. Secondly, it assess the drivers of small-scale deforestation, as well as the responsibility of agriculture and forest-based activities...

The purpose of this paper is to determine and characterize the social and cultural preferences for endangered forest elephants’ conservation in the Congo Basin’s Tridom landscape. The paper uses data from a 2014 representative face-to-face survey with a stratified random sample of 1035, in 108 villages in the Cameroonian and the Gabonese part of th...

Le REDD+ à la rescousse des concessions forestières? Analyse financière des principaux modes de valorisation des terres dans le bassin du Congo

La question de gestion durable des ressources naturelles en générale et des ressources forestières en particulier est d'autant plus importante que la survie de la planète toute entière en dépend. Ce livre vise à promouvoir les politiques de gestion qui prennent en compte et de manière significative les intérêts sociaux, économiques et environnement...