Forest incomes and poverty alleviation under participatory forest management in the Bale Highlands, Southern Ethiopia
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SUMMARY There is an increasing interest in understanding the role forest products and forest resource management in rural livelihoods and poverty reduction strategies. This study investigates the contribution of forest resources to the livelihoods of rural households under a participatory management arrangement in southern Ethiopia. Data were collected through key informant interviews, group discussion, and household surveys from a total of 350 households. Income data were collected in four separate seasons at intervals of three months. The result indicates that forest products are the most important sources of income contributing to 34% and 53% of household per capita income and per capita cash income, respectively. Forest income also helps 20% of the population to remain above the poverty line. Forest income reduces inequality (Gini coefficient) by 15.5%. In general, the result confirms the importance of forest income in poverty alleviation and as safety nets in times of income crisis.
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A common finding among case-studies is that poor households rely more on forest and environmental income sources than better-off households, with reliance measured in relative terms.
“A common finding among case-studies presented in the literature is that poor households rely more on forest and environmental income sources than better-off households, with reliance measured in relative terms as its share in total household income (e.g., Campbell & Luckert, 2002; Cavendish, 2000; Yemiru et al., 2010).”
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Angelsen, A., Jagger, P., Babigumira, R., Belcher, B., Hogarth, N. J., Bauch, S., Börner, J., Smith-Hall, C., & Wunder, S. (2014) · World Development · doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.006 · Cited by 1,147 · see citing works
- Authors
- Yemiru, T., Roos, A., Campbell, B. M., & Bohlin, F.
- Affiliations
- Center for International Forestry Research (ID)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
- ORCID
- Venue
- International Forestry Review
- Publisher
- Commonwealth Forestry Association
- Published
- 2010-03
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 66-77
- ISSN
- 1465-5489 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2169489168
- Cited by
- 168
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 5.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.cifor.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- The International Forestry Review (publishedVersion)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- BioOne Complete (BioOne) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/E021816/1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest Ecology and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Forest Management and Policy
- Keywords
- forest income, poverty reduction, participatory forest management, forest products, rural livelihoods, household income, income inequality, social safety nets, Bale highlands
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