Household determinants of deforestation by amerindians in honduras

Godoy, Ricardo; O’Neill, Kathleen; Groff, Stephen; Kostishack, Peter; Cubas, Adoni; Demmer, Josephien; McSweeney, Kendra; Overman, Johannes Petrus Maria; Wilkie, David; Brokaw, Nicholas; Martínez, Marques

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“…This inequality was due to uneven returns from cacao production and also, importantly, because of the traditional usufruct-based system of land holding and transfer (37). Over time, the usufruct system encouraged forest clearing by households with the labor and/or money to extend their holdings (37,40,49), and strongly favored older households-such as community founders-with the time to accumulate land. In contrast, newcomers and younger households found themselves grasping for small, distant, and scattered plots, ideal conditions for a "landpoverty trap" (Table S3, regression model).…”

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Climate-related disaster opens a window of opportunity for rural poor in northeastern Honduras

McSweeney

Coomes

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Two distinct views are evident in research on how rural communities in developing countries cope with extreme weather events brought by climate change: ( i ) that the resource-reliant poor are acutely vulnerable and need external assistance to prepare for such events, and ( ii ) that climate-related shocks can offer windows of opportunity in which latent local adaptive capacities are triggered, leading to systemic improvement. Results from a longitudinal study in a Tawahka community in Honduras before and after Hurricane Mitch (1994–2002) indicate that residents were highly vulnerable to the hurricane—due in part to previous development assistance—and that the poorest households were the hardest hit. Surprisingly, however, the disaster enabled the poor to initiate an institutional change that led to more equitable land distribution, slowed primary forest conversion, and positioned the community well to cope with comparable flooding occurring 10 y later. The study provides compelling evidence that communities can seize on the window of opportunity created by climate-induced shocks to generate sustained social-ecological improvement, and suggests that future interventions should foster local capacities for endogenous institutional change to enhance community resilience to climate shocks.

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Climate-related disaster opens a window of opportunity for rural poor in northeastern Honduras

McSweeney

Coomes

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…What research has been done suggests an imperfect match between the findings of household life cycle research at the frontier, and similar research conducted among long-established indigenous and ribereño communities. That is, even though researchers have found that in these long-settled contexts, younger households tend to deforest more and to extract more forest products than do "older" households (e.g., Godoy et al, 1997a;McSweeney, 2004), they may not be motivated by the same factors as young colonist households. Further, their aggregate impact on the landscape may be considerably more benign.…”

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“…Amongst an Amerindian group in Honduras, Godoy et al (1997a) found that the area of old-growth rainforest cleared for farming increased with the number of days family members were ill during the previous growing season, suggesting that households may engage in more forest clearing in order to pay off debts incurred during illness. Other research with this same Amerindian population, as well as with ribereño communities in the Peruvian Amazon, also found evidence that forest resources can act as a "safety net" in the context of household illness (McSweeney, 2004;Takasaki et al, 2004).…”

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Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

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VanWey²,

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Global Environmental Change

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This paper reviews and synthesizes findings from scholarly work on linkages among rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment. Using the livelihood approach as an organizing framework, we examine evidence on the multiple pathways linking environmental variables and the following demographic variables: fertility, migration, morbidity and mortality, and lifecycles. Although the review draws on studies from the entire developing world, we find the majority of micro-level studies have been conducted in either marginal (mountainous or arid) or frontier environments, especially Amazonia. Though the linkages are mediated by many complex and often context-specific factors, there is strong evidence that dependence on natural resources intensifies when households lose human and social capital through adult morbidity and mortality, and qualified evidence for the influence of environmental factors on household decision-making regarding fertility and migration. Two decades of research on lifecycles and land-cover change at the farm level have yielded a number of insights about how households make use of different land-use and natural resource management strategies at different stages. A thread running throughout the review is the Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access

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“…In developing countries, forest resources are important to the quality of life and survival of a large number of rural poor (World Bank, 2001;Nilsson, 1996). There is evidence that rural households use forest resources quite extensively (Godoy et al, 1997;Byron and Arnold, 1999;Mamo et al, 2007;Narain et al, 2008;Babulao et al, 2009;Nielsen et al, 2012;Uberhuaga et al, 2012;Chhetri et al, 2015). Products such as timber, fuelwood, fodder grasses, game, fruits, and herbs are harvested in significant quantities by a large number of rural households -the aggregate value of these products often constitutes 20% or more of total household income (Cavendish, 2000;Fisher, 2004;Mamo et al, 2007;Vedeld et al, 2007;Babulao et al, 2009;Chhetri et al, 2015).…”

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<b>Forest Dependence and Inequality: An Empirical Study from Community Forests in Kaski, </b><b>Nepal</b>

Chhetri

Asante

Yoshimoto

2016

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Abstract:This paper examines the importance of income generated from community forest to the rural poor in Kaski District, Nepal. The results of the study show that on average, households earn 7.4% of their cash income from community forests. Poor households are more reliant on forest activities compared with the better off. They earn 13.6% of their total household income from community forest compared to the rich households who earn only 2.1%. The results of the study also reveal that income from community forest have a stronger equalizing effect on local income distribution. The Gini coefficient was computed as 0.37 when income from community forest was considered and 0.53 when it was ignored. These findings show the importance of community forests to the rural poor and underprivileged households. The findings also suggest that in designing community forestry programs, policy makers should not ignore socio-economic disparity among the forest user households.

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Household determinants of deforestation by amerindians in honduras

Cited by 152 publications

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Climate-related disaster opens a window of opportunity for rural poor in northeastern Honduras

Climate-related disaster opens a window of opportunity for rural poor in northeastern Honduras

Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

<b>Forest Dependence and Inequality: An Empirical Study from Community Forests in Kaski, </b><b>Nepal</b>

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