Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end: Scope and limitations of income from rural charcoal production to alleviate acute multidimensional poverty in Mabalane district, southern Mozambique

Vollmer, Frank; Zorrilla-Miras, Pedro; Baumert, Sophia; Luz, Ana Catarina; Woollen, Emily; Grundy, Isla; Artur, Luís; Ribeiro, Natasha; Mahamane, Mansour; Patenaude, Geneviève

doi:10.1016/j.wdp.2017.11.005

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“…The concept of capability poverty, which was first put forward by Sen [25], has paved the road for the more comprehensive cognition toward the multidimensional nature of poverty, namely, receiving health services, education and improving livelihood standards [26], etc. Based on the multidimensional poverty theory, the evaluation indicators of poverty transfers from consumption or income only into medical service, education consumption patterns and leisure activities [27,28], etc. Hence, the interpretation and measurement of poverty has become increasingly accurate and reliable.…”

Section: Multidimensional Povertymentioning

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Poor Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism on Poverty Alleviation: From the Perspective of Multidimensional Poverty

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Tourism plays a crucial role in alleviating poverty deprivations and achieving sustainable development. Nevertheless, there is a lack of literature regarding evaluating poor residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on poverty alleviation from the perspective of multidimensional poverty. Taking Fenghuang County, China, as the study area, this study established an evaluation framework by using the Delphi method based on multidimensional poverty theory. Moreover, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was employed to identify the weight of each indicator and assess poor residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on poverty alleviation. The results indicate that tourism economic development has been a momentous contributor to alleviating multidimensional poverty in study locations to a certain extent (3.180). However, there is still room for improvement and promotion. With respect to various dimensions, the mean of economic level is the highest (1.125), whilst the means of education training (0.420) and health care (0.819) are relatively lower than the other dimensions.

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Section: Multidimensional Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Poor Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism on Poverty Alleviation: From the Perspective of Multidimensional Poverty

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“…Charcoal production is associated with increases in some aspects of well-being (such as greater assets ownership) (Zorrilla-Miras et al 2018), although benefits from charcoal production do not equate to improvements in the aggregate well-being of households, when well-being is measured across different dimensions such as health, education and living standards (Vollmer et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Effect of charcoal production and woodland type on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in drylands of southern Mozambique

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et al. 2020

Forest Ecology and Management

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African woodland ecosystems function as important reservoirs for soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN). However, these ecosystem functions are particularly sensitive to social-ecological factors, the impacts of which remain understudied. Here, we examine how vegetation type and charcoal production affect SOC and TN in dry woodlands of southern Africa, focusing on three woodland ecosystems that represent the main types in southern Mozambique: Androstachys forest, Combretum woodland and Mopane woodlands. Drawing on data from soil surveys at 0-5 cm and 0-30 cm depth in different vegetation types and both distant from and proximate to sites of active charcoal production, we estimate that woodlands in Mabalane District store on average 19 ± 10 (± SE) Mg ha-1 of SOC, and 2.2 ± 0.9 Mg ha-1 of TN at 0-30 cm, significantly lower than values reported for other Miombo woodlands in the region. Our analysis shows that woodland type does not directly influence the amount of SOC and TN stored in soil, and that soil proximate to charcoal kilns had twice the amount of SOC (30.0 ± 1.8 Mg ha-1) and TN (4.5 ± 0.5 Mg ha-1) compared with non-charcoal plots. This study adds to our understanding of the impact of charcoal production on soil SOC and TN in dry woodlands of southern Africa, and demonstrates some localised impacts of charcoal production. We discuss the implications of our findings in the light of emerging carbon-based payments for ecosystem services programmes in the region.

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“…Between 2014 and 2015, quantitative and qualitative social and geospatial data were collected from the 27 studied villages: Mabalane was sampled during May-October 2014; Marrupa May-August 2015; Gurué August-December 2015. Villages had similar vegetation types, infrastructure, climatic conditions and dominant land use activities, relative to each case-study site in which they were located (Baumert et al, 2016;Luz et al, 2015;Mahamane et al, 2017;Smith et al, 2019;Vollmer et al, 2017;Woollen et al, 2016;Zorrilla-Miras et al, 2018). We based village selection on stringent criteria to ensure comparability between villages (e.g.…”

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“…Wellbeing indicators were selected by triangulating participatory wealth rankings results and a structured secondary literature review (for full methodology see Vollmer et al, 2017). The MDWB index comprised 15 indicators of wellbeing, grouped across 3 dimensions (Table 1).…”

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Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing: Evidence from rural Mozambique

Smith

Ryan

Vollmer

et al. 2019

Global Environmental Change

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Intensifying land use is often seen as a corollary of improving rural livelihoods in developing countries. However, land use intensification (LUI) frequently has unintended impacts on ecosystem services (ES), which may undermine the livelihoods of the same people who could benefit from intensification. Poorer households are disproportionately dependent on ES, so inequalities may also rise. A disaggregated analysis of LUI is thus fundamental to better understand how LUI can progress in an equitable manner. Using a suite of multiscale, multidisciplinary social-ecological methods and operationalising multidimensional concepts of land use intensity and wellbeing, we examine three case studies in rural Mozambique. Drawing on qualitative focus group discussions, 1576 household surveys and geospatial data from 27 Mozambican villages, we assess how wellbeing and inequality change with three common LUI pathways: transitions to smallholder commercial crop production, charcoal production, and subsistence expansion. Wellbeing improved with intensification of smallholder commercial and subsistence agriculture, inequality did not change. Intensification of unsustainable charcoal production showed no overall effect on either wellbeing or inequality. Improvements in wellbeing amongst the poorest households were only found with intensification of commercial crop production where villages had highly accessible markets. Our findings suggest that socioeconomic benefits from agricultural intensification and expansion may overcome localised environmental trade-offs, at least in the short term. However, unsustainable charcoal resource management and limited productive investment opportunities for rural households resulted in both reduced market access and limited wellbeing improvements. Sustainable and inclusive markets are therefore crucial developments alongside LUI to sustain wellbeing improvements for all households, to ensure that no one is left behind.

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Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end: Scope and limitations of income from rural charcoal production to alleviate acute multidimensional poverty in Mabalane district, southern Mozambique

Cited by 33 publications

References 44 publications

Poor Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism on Poverty Alleviation: From the Perspective of Multidimensional Poverty

Poor Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism on Poverty Alleviation: From the Perspective of Multidimensional Poverty

Effect of charcoal production and woodland type on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in drylands of southern Mozambique

Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing: Evidence from rural Mozambique

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