Margaret Addie-Kpejenya Suwu

Traditional rural livelihoods and environmental degradation among forest-edge communities in Kenema District, Sierra Leone: Implications for sustainable rural development

Rural households living along forest frontiers depend on land, forests, water and wildlife for food, energy, income and other everyday needs. In Sierra Leone, this dependence is particularly visible around the Gola Rainforest landscape, where subsistence agriculture remains the foundation of livelihood for most forest-...