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We thank Charles Palmer, Patricio Dalton, Hideki Shimada, participants of the 2019 Bioecon and the 2020\nEAERE conferences for their constructive comments and suggestions; this paper also benefitted from the careful and constructive comments by colleagues from the World Bank (and especially Arianna Legovini, Dan Rogger and Mirko Serkovic), and computational reproducibility was verified by DIME Analytics.","production_date":"2023-03","abstract":"Forest fires are among the main drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses remote sensing data on forest fires and remaining tree cover to estimate the effectiveness of a project targeted at reducing fire incidences in twelve protected forests in arid Burkina Faso. The project consisted of two components that were implemented in the villages surrounding the target forests: a campaign aimed at raising community awareness about the detrimental effects of forest fires, and a program to support establishing and maintaining forest fire prevention infrastructures. Using the Synthetic Control Method the paper finds that the project resulted in a 35% reduction in forest fire occurrences in the period of the year when they tend to be most prevalent \u2014in November, at the very end of the agricultural season. However, this impact is short-lived (as the reduction only occurred in the first four years of the program). The reduction in forest fires also did not result in a detectable increase in vegetation cover\u2014because the reduction in November was not sufficiently large to be captured via remote sensing, or because the duration of the reduction was too short for the vegetation to recover. The paper then tries to uncover the underlying mechanisms to shed light on which of the project's components were effective and to also learn how the program can be improved.","geographic_units":[{"name":"Burkina Faso ","code":"BFA","type":"cty"}],"output":[{"type":"Working Paper","title":"Combatting Forest Fires in the Drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso","authors":"Tung Nguyen Huya, Guigonan Serge Adjognonb, Daan van Soesta","description":"Policy Research Working Paper (PRWP) 10336","doi":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1596\/1813-9450-10336"}],"software":[{"name":"Stata"}],"scripts":[{"file_name":"RR_BFA_2023_PRWP-10336_prg_v01.zip","zip_package":"RR_BFA_2023_PRWP-10336_prg_v01.zip","title":"Reproducibility package (data and code) for Combatting Forest Fires","date":"2022-04","software":"Stata","instructions":"See readme in reproducibility package","source_code_repo":"Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank)","notes":"Checked for reproducibility at Development Impact Evaluation (DIME), World Bank","license":[{"name":"MIT License\/Modified BSD3","uri":"https:\/\/opensource.org\/license\/mit\/"}]}],"keywords":[{"name":"Forest Conservation"},{"name":"Forest Fires"},{"name":"Deforestation"},{"name":"Synthetic Control Method"}],"methods":[{"name":"Synthetic Control Method"}],"topics":[{"id":"Q23","name":"Forestry","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php"},{"id":"Q56","name":"Environment and Development \u2022 Environment and Trade \u2022 Sustainability \u2022 Environmental Accounts and Accounting \u2022 Environmental Equity \u2022 Population Growth","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php"},{"id":"Q28","name":"Government Policy","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php"},{"id":"O13","name":"Agriculture \u2022 Natural Resources \u2022 Energy \u2022 Environment \u2022 Other Primary Products","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php"}],"language":[{"name":"English","code":"EN"}],"data_statement":"All data is public and contained in the reproducibility package.","repository_uri":[{"name":"Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank)","uri":" https:\/\/reproducibility.worldbank.org"}],"technology_environment":"OS: Windows 10 Enterprise, version 21H2; Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8665U CPU @ 1.90GHz 2.11 GHz; Memory available: 15.8 GB","reproduction_instructions":"A readme file with detailed instructions is part of the reproducibility package.","disclaimer":"The materials in the reproducibility packages are distributed as they were prepared by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development\/the World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.","license":[{"name":"MIT License","uri":"https:\/\/opensource.org\/license\/mit\/"}]},"tags":[{"tag":"DOI"},{"tag":"Fully Reproducible"},{"tag":"PRWP"},{"tag":"WB verified"}],"schematype":"script"}