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Forest Product Sale as Natural Insurance: The Effects of Household Characteristics and the Nature of Shock in Eastern Honduras
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The rural poor are known to turn to tropical forest resources in times of need. But what explains differential use of this “natural insurance” policy among households? Drawing from a 1998 survey of 116 indigenous households in Honduras, this article shows that households sell forest products to pay for crop shortfalls and illness, but that loans from kin are a more common way to weather calamity. Young households with few liquidatable assets and little land are the most likely to sell forest products to self-insure. Development policies that build on the “natural insurance” concept should anticipate major variation within target populations; meanwhile, conservationists should recognize that the lack of formal safety nets in rural communities will motivate the sale of forest products.
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Metadata
- Authors
- MCSWEENEY, K.
- Venue
- Society & Natural Resources
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2004-01
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 39-56
- ISSN
- 0894-1920 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-0723
- OpenAlex
- W2047136622
- Cited by
- 158
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 7.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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