[ Analyse de l’incidence financière de l’apparition des Epidémies d’Ebola et de Lassa sur la chasse à la battue dans les périphéries de la commune de Parakou au Nord-Bénin ]
Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2017, Pages 172–183
K. P. Degla1, S. Mama Soule2, G. E. Kpadonou3, O. R. Adjibi4, and G. Aguenounon5
1 Départment d’Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, Université de Parakou, 01 B.P. 123 Parakou, Benin
2 Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, UP, Benin
3 Département d’Aménagement et de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles, Faculté d’Agronomie, (UP), Benin
4 Inspection forestière de Parakou, Direction Nationale des Eaux, Forêts et Chasse , Benin
5 Département d’Aménagement et de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles, Faculté d’Agronomie, (UP), Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The beat hunting represents an important source for food and income for populations in the northern Benin. But, although the bush meat is well appreciated by the population, it could also be a source for diseases then the wildlife is a great reserve of several dangerous microorganisms. In that respect the appearance of Ebola and Lassa virus in Benin had affected the consumption of bush meat and thereby the beat hunting. The analysis of this economic activity in the context of the Lassa epidemic was the subject of the present study. Based on a random sample of 150 hunters and using the “Before-and-After” approach, the results showed that the averages of gross margins in the absence and in the presence of the epidemic were 126 314 F and 140 489 F CFA respectively. With a probability of p=0.20, the difference of means is however no significant, suggesting, as also showed by the score of the hunters’ perception on the impact of the epidemic, that the Lassa epidemic had only a limited financial effect on their hunting activity; hoping thereby that their activity again increases as soon as the psychosis generated by Ebola and Lassa virus would disappeared. The indifference of hunters to the risks linked to these epidemics calls however, for the need of deeper future studies on the perception and motivation of hunters for hunting in periods of sanitary crisis in order to prevent public health catastrophes in the study area.
Author Keywords: Lassa and Ebola Epidemic, Beat hunting, farm income, Benin.
Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2017, Pages 172–183
K. P. Degla1, S. Mama Soule2, G. E. Kpadonou3, O. R. Adjibi4, and G. Aguenounon5
1 Départment d’Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, Université de Parakou, 01 B.P. 123 Parakou, Benin
2 Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, UP, Benin
3 Département d’Aménagement et de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles, Faculté d’Agronomie, (UP), Benin
4 Inspection forestière de Parakou, Direction Nationale des Eaux, Forêts et Chasse , Benin
5 Département d’Aménagement et de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles, Faculté d’Agronomie, (UP), Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The beat hunting represents an important source for food and income for populations in the northern Benin. But, although the bush meat is well appreciated by the population, it could also be a source for diseases then the wildlife is a great reserve of several dangerous microorganisms. In that respect the appearance of Ebola and Lassa virus in Benin had affected the consumption of bush meat and thereby the beat hunting. The analysis of this economic activity in the context of the Lassa epidemic was the subject of the present study. Based on a random sample of 150 hunters and using the “Before-and-After” approach, the results showed that the averages of gross margins in the absence and in the presence of the epidemic were 126 314 F and 140 489 F CFA respectively. With a probability of p=0.20, the difference of means is however no significant, suggesting, as also showed by the score of the hunters’ perception on the impact of the epidemic, that the Lassa epidemic had only a limited financial effect on their hunting activity; hoping thereby that their activity again increases as soon as the psychosis generated by Ebola and Lassa virus would disappeared. The indifference of hunters to the risks linked to these epidemics calls however, for the need of deeper future studies on the perception and motivation of hunters for hunting in periods of sanitary crisis in order to prevent public health catastrophes in the study area.
Author Keywords: Lassa and Ebola Epidemic, Beat hunting, farm income, Benin.
Abstract: (french)
La chasse à la battue constitue une source d’alimentation et de revenus pour les populations du Nord-Bénin. S’il est admis que la « viande de brousse » est appréciée par plus d’un, il n’en demeure pas moins qu’elle soit source de maladies car la faune sauvage est un réservoir de zoonoses. Ainsi les évènements d’apparition du virus de Lassa et les rumeurs d’apparition de celui d’Ebola au Bénin, ont affecté la consommation de la viande de brousse et par conséquent la chasse à la battue. L’analyse de cette activité économique dans le contexte d’épidémie de Lassa a fait l’objet de la présente étude. Basé sur un échantillon aléatoire de 150 chasseurs et utilisant l’approche « Avant-et-Après» les résultats de l’étude révèlent que les marges brutes moyennes avant et après l’épidémie sont respectivement de 126 314 F et de 140 489 F CFA. Avec une probabilité p=0,20, la différence de moyennes reste toutefois non significative, révélant comme la perception des chasseurs sur l’impact de l’épidémie, que l’apparition de l’épidémie n’a eu qu’une incidence financière limitée sur leur activité de chasse dont ils espèrent de nouveau la croissance dès la fin de la psychose créée par les épidémies d’Ebola et de Lassa. L’indifférence des chasseurs face au danger de ces épidémies suggère toutefois la nécessité d’études plus approfondies sur la perception et la motivation des chasseurs à chasser en période de crise sanitaire afin de prévenir des catastrophes de santé publique dans la zone d’étude.
Author Keywords: Epidémie Ebola et Lassa, Chasse à la battue, Revenu d’exploitation, Bénin.
How to Cite this Article
K. P. Degla, S. Mama Soule, G. E. Kpadonou, O. R. Adjibi, and G. Aguenounon, “Analysis of the financial effect of the appearance of Ebola and Lassa Epidemics on the beat hunting in the peripheries of the Municipality of Parakou in Northern Benin,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 172–183, March 2017.
