Bio- and agro-diversity in oil-palm-based anthropogenic landscapes in Tropical Africa

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25300012
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Yamakoshi Gen 京都大学, アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 准教授 (00314253)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 伊谷 樹一 京都大学, アフリカ地域研究資料センター, 教授 (20232382)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ISHIKAWA Noboru 京都大学, 東南アジア地域研究研究所, 教授 (50273503) ; YANAGISAWA Masayuki 京都大学, 東南アジア地域研究研究所, 准教授 (50273503)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 有用植物 / 野生動物 / 環境政策 / 生態学 / 自然資源管理 / アグロフォレストリー / ギニア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Conservation of secondary or anthropogenic landscapes is an important contemporary environmental issue which will serve to enrich both agro- and bio-diversity. A unique oil-palm-based agricultural landscape extends widely, coupled with a slush-and-burn agro-system in coastal and forested regions in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. This study challenged to quantify the landscape's function for biological conservation, and also to quantify the dynamic relations between oil palm density and the degrees of human commitments. In addition, we tried to comprehend a broad outline of historical and geographical traces of diffusion of the palm and to conduct a broad-scale ethnographic comparison of oil-palm use between East, Southern, and West Africa.

Free Research Field

アフリカ地域研究