Almeida Sitoe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Almeida Sitoe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Almeida |
| FAMILY NAME | Sitoe |
| SIGNATURE | SITOE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eduardo Mondlane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7583-2387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
National-scale field delineation in Mozambique refines our understanding of cropland distribution, field size, and deforestation actors
The design of science-based policies to improve the sustainability of smallholder agriculture is challenged by a limited understanding of fundamental system properties, such as the spatial distribution of active cropland and field size. We integrate 1.5 m resolution satellite imagery, satellite embeddings, and deep learning to map individual fields in complex smallholder systems at policy-relevant scale. We identify 17 million fields across Mozam…
Quantifying the costs and benefits of forest conversion through slash-and-burn cultivation and conventional logging
Food insecurity, deforestation, and forest degradation are significant challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in sub-Saharan Africa. Slash-and-burn cultivation and conventional logging (timber and charcoal production) are two interrelated activities that lead to forest loss and undermine food security. However, the environmental and economic incentives to clear or conserve the forest have yet to be discovered. To address this g…
Uncertainty and Forest Concessions in a Globalized World: Insights into Local Access to Forest Resources in Mozambique
Forest-based communities are embedded in complex and uncertain global processes. We aim to understand the repercussions of uncertainty on forest-based livelihoods through a focus on implications in terms of access to resources for inhabitants of forest concessions. Uncertainty is conceptualized as unpredictability (not knowing), limited knowledge (knowing too little), and ambiguity (knowing too much, too differently). This research is based on do…
Regeneration and Restoration Status of Miombo Woodland Following Land Use Land Cover Changes at the Buffer Zone of Gile National Park, Central Mozambique
In the context of the current intensified disturbances of Miombo woodland, its regenerating capacity is fundamental to endure such disturbances. Miombo woodland in the buffer zone of Gile National Park (GNAP) is facing land cover change. This study aimed to assess regeneration structure, the status of restoration, and factors affecting the regeneration of Miombo woodland in the buffer zone of GNAP. In total, 12 transects, 48 plots, and 240 subplo…
The rise and fall of plantation forestry in northern Mozambique
In the last two decades, Mozambique's plantation forestry has witnessed several twists, which were driven by domestic and global changes. However, empirical evidence on the governance issues that account for a bleak plantation forestry future in Mozambique are lacking. This paper explores the governance issues that militate for the rise and fall in plantation forestry in northern Mozambique. We conducted an online email, face-to-face or phone cal…
Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of transnational land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa
Actor-level data on large-scale commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. The peculiar choice of transnational investing in African land has, therefore, been subject to conjecture. Addressing this gap, we reconstructed the underlying logics of investment location choices in a Bayesian network, using firm- and actor-level interview and spatial data from 37 transnational agriculture and forestry investments across 121 sites in Mozamb…
Waves and legacies: The making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique
The literature on land-use frontiers has overwhelmingly focused on active frontiers of expansion. We focus on an emerging frontier. We studied the decisions, narratives, and practices of the actors driving land-use change in Niassa, Mozambique. Based on ethnographic research carried out between early 2017 and late 2018 among investors engaged in commercial agriculture and plantation forestry, we show how successive waves of actors with different …
The connection between forest degradation and urban energy demand in sub-Saharan Africa: A characterization based on high-resolution remote sensing data
Charcoal is a key energy source for urban households in sub-Saharan Africa and charcoal production is the main cause of forest degradation across the region. We used multitemporal high-resolution remote sensing optical imagery to quantify the extent and intensity of forest degradation associated with charcoal production and its impact on forest carbon stocks for the main supplying area of an African capital. This analysis documents the advance of…
Monitoring forest degradation from charcoal production with historical Landsat imagery. A case study in southern Mozambique
We used historical Landsat imagery to monitor forest degradation from charcoal production in the main supplying region of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, during a ten-year period (2008–2018). We applied a change detection method that exploits temporal NDVI dynamics associated with charcoal production. This forest degradation temporal sequence exposes the magnitude and the spatial and temporal dynamics of charcoal production, which is the main for…
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
The impact of charcoal production on forest degradation: A case study in Tete, Mozambique
Charcoal production for urban energy consumption is a main driver of forest degradation in sub Saharan Africa. Urban growth projections for the continent suggest that the relevance of this process will increase in the coming decades. Forest degradation associated to charcoal production is difficult to monitor and commonly overlooked and underrepresented in forest cover change and carbon emission estimates. We use a multitemporal dataset of very h…
Socio-economic impacts of private land use investment on rural communities: Industrial forest plantations in Niassa, Mozambique
Private investment as an engine of rural development: A confrontation of theory and practice for the case of Mozambique
Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands
Private investment as an engine of rural development: A confrontation of theory and practice for the case of Mozambique
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
Socio-economic impacts of private land use investment on rural communities: Industrial forest plantations in Niassa, Mozambique
Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands
Uncertainty and Forest Concessions in a Globalized World: Insights into Local Access to Forest Resources in Mozambique
Forest-based communities are embedded in complex and uncertain global processes. We aim to understand the repercussions of uncertainty on forest-based livelihoods through a focus on implications in terms of access to resources for inhabitants of forest concessions. Uncertainty is conceptualized as unpredictability (not knowing), limited knowledge (knowing too little), and ambiguity (knowing too much, too differently). This research is based on do…
Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of transnational land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa
Actor-level data on large-scale commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. The peculiar choice of transnational investing in African land has, therefore, been subject to conjecture. Addressing this gap, we reconstructed the underlying logics of investment location choices in a Bayesian network, using firm- and actor-level interview and spatial data from 37 transnational agriculture and forestry investments across 121 sites in Mozamb…
Waves and legacies: The making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique
The literature on land-use frontiers has overwhelmingly focused on active frontiers of expansion. We focus on an emerging frontier. We studied the decisions, narratives, and practices of the actors driving land-use change in Niassa, Mozambique. Based on ethnographic research carried out between early 2017 and late 2018 among investors engaged in commercial agriculture and plantation forestry, we show how successive waves of actors with different …
Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands
The impact of charcoal production on forest degradation: A case study in Tete, Mozambique
Charcoal production for urban energy consumption is a main driver of forest degradation in sub Saharan Africa. Urban growth projections for the continent suggest that the relevance of this process will increase in the coming decades. Forest degradation associated to charcoal production is difficult to monitor and commonly overlooked and underrepresented in forest cover change and carbon emission estimates. We use a multitemporal dataset of very h…
Socio-economic impacts of private land use investment on rural communities: Industrial forest plantations in Niassa, Mozambique
Private investment as an engine of rural development: A confrontation of theory and practice for the case of Mozambique
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
Monitoring forest degradation from charcoal production with historical Landsat imagery. A case study in southern Mozambique
We used historical Landsat imagery to monitor forest degradation from charcoal production in the main supplying region of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, during a ten-year period (2008–2018). We applied a change detection method that exploits temporal NDVI dynamics associated with charcoal production. This forest degradation temporal sequence exposes the magnitude and the spatial and temporal dynamics of charcoal production, which is the main for…
The connection between forest degradation and urban energy demand in sub-Saharan Africa: A characterization based on high-resolution remote sensing data
Charcoal is a key energy source for urban households in sub-Saharan Africa and charcoal production is the main cause of forest degradation across the region. We used multitemporal high-resolution remote sensing optical imagery to quantify the extent and intensity of forest degradation associated with charcoal production and its impact on forest carbon stocks for the main supplying area of an African capital. This analysis documents the advance of…
Regeneration and Restoration Status of Miombo Woodland Following Land Use Land Cover Changes at the Buffer Zone of Gile National Park, Central Mozambique
In the context of the current intensified disturbances of Miombo woodland, its regenerating capacity is fundamental to endure such disturbances. Miombo woodland in the buffer zone of Gile National Park (GNAP) is facing land cover change. This study aimed to assess regeneration structure, the status of restoration, and factors affecting the regeneration of Miombo woodland in the buffer zone of GNAP. In total, 12 transects, 48 plots, and 240 subplo…
The rise and fall of plantation forestry in northern Mozambique
In the last two decades, Mozambique's plantation forestry has witnessed several twists, which were driven by domestic and global changes. However, empirical evidence on the governance issues that account for a bleak plantation forestry future in Mozambique are lacking. This paper explores the governance issues that militate for the rise and fall in plantation forestry in northern Mozambique. We conducted an online email, face-to-face or phone cal…
Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of transnational land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa
Actor-level data on large-scale commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. The peculiar choice of transnational investing in African land has, therefore, been subject to conjecture. Addressing this gap, we reconstructed the underlying logics of investment location choices in a Bayesian network, using firm- and actor-level interview and spatial data from 37 transnational agriculture and forestry investments across 121 sites in Mozamb…
Waves and legacies: The making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique
The literature on land-use frontiers has overwhelmingly focused on active frontiers of expansion. We focus on an emerging frontier. We studied the decisions, narratives, and practices of the actors driving land-use change in Niassa, Mozambique. Based on ethnographic research carried out between early 2017 and late 2018 among investors engaged in commercial agriculture and plantation forestry, we show how successive waves of actors with different …
Uncertainty and Forest Concessions in a Globalized World: Insights into Local Access to Forest Resources in Mozambique
Forest-based communities are embedded in complex and uncertain global processes. We aim to understand the repercussions of uncertainty on forest-based livelihoods through a focus on implications in terms of access to resources for inhabitants of forest concessions. Uncertainty is conceptualized as unpredictability (not knowing), limited knowledge (knowing too little), and ambiguity (knowing too much, too differently). This research is based on do…
Quantifying the costs and benefits of forest conversion through slash-and-burn cultivation and conventional logging
Food insecurity, deforestation, and forest degradation are significant challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in sub-Saharan Africa. Slash-and-burn cultivation and conventional logging (timber and charcoal production) are two interrelated activities that lead to forest loss and undermine food security. However, the environmental and economic incentives to clear or conserve the forest have yet to be discovered. To address this g…
National-scale field delineation in Mozambique refines our understanding of cropland distribution, field size, and deforestation actors
The design of science-based policies to improve the sustainability of smallholder agriculture is challenged by a limited understanding of fundamental system properties, such as the spatial distribution of active cropland and field size. We integrate 1.5 m resolution satellite imagery, satellite embeddings, and deep learning to map individual fields in complex smallholder systems at policy-relevant scale. We identify 17 million fields across Mozam…
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 works) · Agroforestry (5 works) · Charcoal (5 works)