Contribution of forest to rural households’ livelihood: evidences from Da river basin in the northwest mountainous region of Vietnam

Chu, Tran Van; Thoai, Trinh Quang; An, Cao Quoc; Toai, Pham Minh; Camacho, Leni D.; Sam, Hoang Van

doi:10.24259/fs.v3i2.7050

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“…The supply of ES can be affected by numerous drivers of change that can be divided into the categories of direct (e.g., harvesting, land-coverchange) and indirect (e.g., cultural or religious issues, economic change, climate change). Among the human-induced indirect drivers, economic conditions have been highlighted as the most significant factors that induce changes in land cover (Chu et al, 2019).…”

Section: Socio-demographic Factors Undermining the Factor Influencing...mentioning

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Mapping the Demand for Ecosystem Services in Human-Dominated Topical Forest of Sabah, Malaysia

Kamlun,

Bürger-Arndt,

Fatah

2024

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Mapping the demand for ecosystem services (ES) is a profoundly debated research topic that needs to be investigated further to overcome spatial discrepancies between supply and demand in the literature. This study proposes a holistic approach to valuing ES, which is demanded by local people living adjacent to Sabah’s protected area in the southwestern part of Sabah, Malaysia. To assess the local people's demand for ecosystem services, we applied the 'ES Matrix Assessment' method. Timber, global climate regulation, recreation, and ecotourism are selected to illustrate the changes in ES demand patterns reported in the Klias Peninsula region. To identify the ES required by local people based on land-cover type, we used a weighted arithmetic mean approach. Then, using multiple regressions, we identified socio-demographic characteristics that influence demand for ES obtained from the Klias Peninsula's tropical forest. The 6-point Likert scale results showed that timber received medium (3) to highly relevant demand (4) among local people in the forest ecosystem, while climate regulation demand was the most highly relevant demand (5) in the forest ecosystem, and recreation and ecotourism are highly demanded in the forest ecosystem and water-based area. Overall, ethnicity, source(s) of income, distance from the protected area, length of residence, and education level have influenced the population's perception of ecosystem service demand in peat swamp forest, mangrove, and forest land, and these factors are statistically significant at the 1% to 5% levels. Our approach possesses the advantage of being intuitively straightforward, making it easy to convey to stakeholders and decision-makers across various ecosystem service (ES) applications. Therefore, our approach, while relatively simple, remains realistic and easy to apply, effectively raising awareness about the utility of the ecosystem services concept for stakeholders and policymakers.

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Section: Socio-demographic Factors Undermining the Factor Influencing...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping the Demand for Ecosystem Services in Human-Dominated Topical Forest of Sabah, Malaysia

Kamlun,

Bürger-Arndt,

Fatah

2024

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“…The high belief of community forest farmers in Indonesia agrees with the findings of other studies. Chu et al (2019) reported that forests contribute significantly to livelihoods, especially in increasing the income of farmers in Vietnam. Race et al (2019) stated that forests contribute 29% of the total income of community forest farmers in Indonesia.…”

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Understanding Social Capital in Management of Community Forest in Indonesia

Oktalina

Wiyono

Suka³

et al. 2022

HBT

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Community forests are defined as forests that grow on private land and are managed by farmers on a small scale. Most of the community forests in Indonesia are managed by farmers, who mostly use social capital in community forest management. Understanding social capital of farmers in managing community forests is important to empower them. This research was a survey conducted by involving 240 respondents in three districts: Bulukumba (South Sulawesi Province), Gunungkidul (Yogyakarta Special Province), and Pati (Central Java Province). The research showed that majority of the farmers believed that community forests can support their livelihoods. Moreover, the research used trust, norm, and network to measure the social capital employed in the community forest management. The result revealed some trusted stakeholders for intervention in community forest management across the study locations were other farmers, farmer group committees, and farmer groups. Meanwhile, the norms that the farmers used in community forest were tradition and custom. In addition, the farming network was identified to understand behavior of the farmers in forest product marketing. A total of 68% of the farmers sell timber, whereas the others (52%) sell crops. Traders are the most important stakeholder in community forest product marketing. From this identification of social capital, we could develop appropriate strategies for intervention to manage the community forests for sustainable community forest management.

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“…Thus, forest utilization reflects, to some degree, the importance of forests to farmers' livelihoods, which is inherently measured by the proportion of forest income in the total household income. In many uplands, the contribution of forests to livelihoods often accounts for a high share of total household income [3,4,29,30]. Forest utility is a measure of satisfaction that could encourage or hinder farmers from engaging in forest practices, depending on the degree to which their outcome exceeds expectations.…”

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“…According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2015) [1], forest products are a major source of livelihoods for around 1.3 billion people, 18% of the world population. Poor people, especially destitute ones, utilize forest resources in various ways, ranging from agricultural inputs, subsistence, and fuelwood, to income [2][3][4][5][6]. More importantly, forests can facilitate poverty alleviation and inequality mitigation in many parts of the world [7].…”

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Understanding Vietnamese Farmers’ Perception toward Forest Importance and Perceived Willingness-to-Participate in REDD+ Program: A Case Study in Nghe An Province

Khuc

Pham

Tran

et al. 2021

Forests

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Climate change continues to pose a constant threat to nature and human beings, and thus demands adaptability and flexibility in forestry and domestic land use management. In this context, the Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) project was introduced to harness forests to curb greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat climate change. As of 2020, REDD+ was implemented in 65 countries across the world, including Vietnam. While the missions of afforestation and forest protection cannot be accomplished without the aid of local residents, low participation from stakeholders, particularly poor farmers, is an obstacle in climate mitigation projects. To contribute to improving REDD+ with a useful Vietnam reference, this study uses a random sample approach coupled with a face-to-face interview method to survey 215 households in Chau Thai, one of 206 poor communes in Nghe An province, to learn about (1) residents’ perception towards the importance of forests, (2) how forests contribute as a source of livelihood, (3) potential for household engagement in REDD+. The research findings show that the important role of forests is well acknowledged, the majority of forestland was allocated to plantation forests, and the seeds are carefully selected to satisfy market demand. In addition, forests are recorded to make major contributions to residents’ income and roughly four-fifths of households revealed their willingness to get involved in the REDD+ project with a monthly subsidy of 500–2000 kVND (22.3–89.2 USD). The study provides valuable information about forest-based rural livelihood and policy options to facilitate REDD+ participation among farmers. This, in turn, helps devise more appropriate policies for climate change mitigation and sustainable rural mountainous development nationwide and beyond.

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Contribution of forest to rural households’ livelihood: evidences from Da river basin in the northwest mountainous region of Vietnam

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Mapping the Demand for Ecosystem Services in Human-Dominated Topical Forest of Sabah, Malaysia

Mapping the Demand for Ecosystem Services in Human-Dominated Topical Forest of Sabah, Malaysia

Understanding Social Capital in Management of Community Forest in Indonesia

Understanding Vietnamese Farmers’ Perception toward Forest Importance and Perceived Willingness-to-Participate in REDD+ Program: A Case Study in Nghe An Province

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