An international comparison of cases of forest product development: overview, description and data requirements

Belcher, B.; Pérez, M. Ruiz

doi:10.17528/cifor/000960

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Nature’s contribution to poverty alleviation, human wellbeing and the SDGs

Poudyal,

Kraft,

Wells

et al. 2024

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Millions of households globally rely on uncultivated ecosystems for their livelihoods. However, much of the understanding about the broader contribution of uncultivated ecosystems to human wellbeing is still based on a series of small-scale studies due to limited availability of large-scale datasets. We pooled together 11 comparable datasets comprising 232 settlements and 10,971 households in ten low-and middle-income countries, representing forest, savanna and coastal ecosystems to analyse how uncultivated nature contributes to multi-dimensional wellbeing and how benefits from nature are distributed between households. The resulting dataset integrates secondary data on rural livelihoods, multidimensional human wellbeing, household demographics, resource tenure and social-ecological context, primarily drawing on nine existing household surveys and their associated contextual information together with selected variables, such as travel time to cities, population density, local area GDP and land use and land cover from existing global datasets. This integrated dataset has been archived with ReShare (UK Data Service) and will be useful for further analyses on nature-wellbeing relationships on its own or in combination with similar datasets.

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Nature’s contribution to poverty alleviation, human wellbeing and the SDGs

Poudyal,

Kraft,

Wells

et al. 2024

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A method to assess the outcomes of forest product trade on livelihoods and the environment

Kusters¹,

Belcher²,

Pérez³

et al. 2005

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As part of a multi-collaborator research project on the potential of non-timber forest product (NTFP) trade for conservation and development we designed tools to assess the effects of NTFP trade on people's livelihoods and the environment. To assess livelihood outcomes of NTFP trade we used the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods framework and identified indicators to capture changes in financial, physical, natural, human and social assets at the household and community level. We also selected indicators to assess livelihood related changes at the national level. To assess the environmental impacts of commercial NTFP production we identified indicators at four levels: target species population, land use ecosystem, landscape, and global level. The method presented in this paper is meant to provide a time and cost effective tool to measure the effects of NTFP trade, based on expert judgment. We first present a brief overview of the research project and the challenges faced in the design of the method, followed by a description of the method.

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Technical and socio-economic aspects of sustainable NTFP production: A case study of thitsi resin production in Sagaing Division, Myanmar

Tani

2012

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Since production of non-timber forest products (NTFP) does not involve logging in principle, and provides income, it is expected to contribute for forest conservation as well as local people , s well-being. Studies have been carried out to evolve the factors determining the sustainability of NTFP production. This paper aims to provide additional information on thitsi (Melanorrhoea usitata / Gluta usitata, lacquer resin) production system of Myanmar. Thitsi has been used for centuries, but the production system is not known well. Plot surveys and interviews at three villages in Sagaing Division were conducted to obtain information about the production system of thitsi. Questions were mainly about (1) the method of resin collection, (2) situation of land and forest regulations, property rights and organizations, (3) economic conditions of producers and non-producers. The results showed that the tapping method seemed to have low impact on the thitsi trees at present, but there was no regeneration activity, the legal property rights were not clear, and there was no institution to control the use by people of other villages. The present situation seemed to be retained by the self-sufficient way of the livings of the local people, and the nature of the resin market that was mainly for domestic purposes with a relatively stable demand. However, competition for thitsi trees was observed, so if the people need more cash and the markets drastically expand in the future, it might be difficult to keep control of the use of this forest resource.

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An international comparison of cases of forest product development: overview, description and data requirements

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Nature’s contribution to poverty alleviation, human wellbeing and the SDGs

Nature’s contribution to poverty alleviation, human wellbeing and the SDGs

A method to assess the outcomes of forest product trade on livelihoods and the environment

Technical and socio-economic aspects of sustainable NTFP production: A case study of thitsi resin production in Sagaing Division, Myanmar

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