Sustainable Landscapes for Eastern Madagascar – A midterm impact evaluation

Donatti, Camila I., Fedele, Giacomo, Marcellino, Rocky, Muñoz, Alea, Prowse, Martin, Rabenandrasana, Clarck, Rakotobe, Zo Lalaina, Rakotonandrasana, Justice Frederic, Rambeloson, Andoniaina Mialisoa, Ramparany, Mamy, Sadania, Clementine and Velontrasina, Clara (2025) Sustainable Landscapes for Eastern Madagascar – A midterm impact evaluation. Environmental Challenges, 20. ISSN 2667-0100

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Abstract

The Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar project aims to increase the resilience of smallholder farmers and reduce carbon emissions by implementing climate-smart agriculture and more sustainable forest management in the two remaining large blocks of forest in the eastern part of Madagascar, covering 660,000 hectares in 15 districts. We present findings from a midterm clustered phase-in evaluation. Baseline data was collected in early 2019 from 1822 households in local community associations. A total of 1654 were successfully re-interviewed in late 2022. Midline results show widespread adoption of a range of conservation agriculture practices, with early project recipients showing increased adoption rates of up to 20 percentage points greater than comparison households, including soil conservation measures (2–13 pp), agroforestry (2–6 pp) and the use of drought-resistant crops (2–6 pp). Further, household food security using the consolidated approach for reporting indicators of food security shows improvement across intention-to-treat, local average treatment effect and difference-in-differences specifications. In terms of forest use, fewer beneficiaries report deriving income from unsustainable activities in both summer (1 pp) and winter (4–7pp) seasons.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data availability: Data will be made available on request.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	madagascar,climate adaptation,impact evaluation,sustainable landscapes,sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 2 - zero hunger ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Aug 2025 11:30
Last Modified:	11 Aug 2025 00:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100101
DOI:	10.1016/j.envc.2025.101231

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