Cormier Salem Marie-Christine auteur aut IRD Panfili Jacques auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Besides their important contribution to global biodiversity, mangroves provide many services. Nevertheless, due to an increase of human activities and to climate change, in less than 20 years these ecosystems have lost one fifth of their global surface area. In response to this decrease, mangrove reforestation incentives have spread throughout the world. The scientific and societal legitimacy of reforestation actions still remain in question. Focusing on two case studies, the Saloum Delta and Lower Casamance, Senegal, our methodology was mainly based on the analysis of environmental narratives and discourses between 2009 and 2013, and on reforestation campaigns conducted by NGOs. We highlight the complexity of the system of values associated with the mangroves, as well as the positive and negative interactions between the services. Even although the reforestation campaigns were generally successful in terms of reforested surfaces and international visibility, they were poor in terms of biological and cultural diversities and led to spatial injustice. Moreover, the extensive reforestation with a unique mangrove species, Rhizophora mangle, was perceived as means of green grabbing', and the simultaneous buying of carbon tax by industrial conglomerates induced disempowerment of the local communities. More integrated research programmes must be developed towards the extensive knowledge of the mangroves. specialized carbon forestry ecosystem services global climate change policy green grabbing mangrove ecology political ecology reforestation SENEGAL SALOUM DELTA CASAMANCE BASSE 082 036 41 1 89-98 2016 1608-5914 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010066721 10.2989/16085914.2016.1146122 1608-5914 [F B010066721] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010066721 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2016/04/010066721.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2016-05-03 2025-11-04 fdi:010066721 fre