159. Joint use of the ELECTRE Tri and KEMIRA-Sort Multi Criteria Decision Making methods to prioritize the exploitation of Non Timber Forest Products providing species
Invited abstract in session WB-11: OR and the Global South 1, stream OR in Developing Countries.
Wednesday, 10:45-12:15Room: U2-200
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Stéphane Aimé Metchebon Takougang
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| Université Aube Nouvelle |
Abstract
The exploitation of non timber forest products (NTFPs) is an asset in the fight against poverty in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Particularly in the Pô region of Burkina Faso, non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are the main source of income for rural populations. However, the potential of NTFP-providing species is not always exploited in a way that provides greater profitability for rural populations. The aim of this work is to propose a prioritization of NTFP-providing species based on their ability to provide greater profitability for local populations. To this end, a proposition of a methodology based on the joint use of the KEMIRA-sort and ELECTRE Tri multi-criteria sorting methods to assign NTFP-providing species to ordered categories of profitability is made. The application of this methodology enabled to identify a median categorization made up of three categories of NTFP-providing species according to their profitability in the Pô area. The best category is made up of one specie (tamarind), while the second best category is made up of four species (shea, baobab, moringa, mango) and the last of five species (nere, detarium, jujube, resin and liana). The concordance of these results with the estimate of the expert, playing the role of decision maker, at the very start of our study, validate empirically the proposed approach, prefiguring its successful application to other context of multi-criteria sorting problems in the future (e.g. prioritizing areas at risk of the spread of a given disease in public health).
Keywords
- OR in Agriculture
- Decision Theory and Analysis
Status: accepted
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