Joint production and consumption in traditional households: Fuelwood and crop residues in two districts in Nepal

Amacher, Gregory S.; Hyde, William F.; Joshee, B. R.

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“…5 The direct consumption component is the focus of the literature on fuelwood collection and stove adoption. See, for example, Amacher, Hyde, and Joshee (1993) and Amacher, Hyde, and Kanel (1999). This literature is mainly concerned with the household impacts of fuel scarcity and/or the impacts of improved stoves on fuel collection and deforestation.…”

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Understanding household demand for indoor air pollution control in developing countries

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2002

Social Science & Medicine

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Understanding household demand for indoor air pollution control in developing countries

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“…Agriculture and forestry production systems can produce more than one product simultaneously (Amacher et al, 1993). The outputs can include a range of cereal crops, livestock and forest products.…”

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Socioeconomic Impacts of Public Forest Policies on Heterogeneous Agricultural Households

Dhakal

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Cullen

2012

Environ Resource Econ

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Nepal has a long history of returning public forests to local people as part of its community forestry programme. In principle the community forestry programme is designed to address both environmental quality and poverty alleviation. However, concern has been expressed that forest policies emphasise environmental conservation, and that this has a detrimental impact on the use of community forests in rural Nepal where households require access to public forest products to sustain livelihoods. To study the effect of government policies on forest use, an economic model of a typical small community of economically heterogeneous households in Nepal was developed. The model incorporates a link between private agriculture and public forest resources, and uses this link to assess the socioeconomic impacts of forest policies on the use of public forests. Socioeconomic impacts were measured in terms of household income, employment and income inequality. The results show that some forest policies have a negative economic impact, and the impacts are more serious than those reported by other studies. This study shows that existing forest policies reduce household income and employment, and widen income inequalities within communities, compared to alternative policies. Certain forest policies even constrain the poorest households' ability to meet survival needs. The findings indicate that the socioeconomic impacts of public forest policies may be underestimated in developing countries unless household economic heterogeneity and forestry's contribution to production are accounted for. The study also demonstrates that alternative policies for managing common property resources would reduce income inequalities in rural Nepalese communities and lift incomes and employment to a level where even the poorest households could meet their basic needs.

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“…In Nepal typical rural households depend on the resources and opportunities available from their own farms, markets (for buying or selling farm inputs, outputs and labor force) and common property resources (Amacher et al, 1993;Mahat et al, 1987;Adhikari et al, 2004). Households make production and consumption decisions based on the opportunity costs of labor and land resources.…”

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“…As this paper also shows, the impacts of agroforestry policies are potentially greatest for the most vulnerable, who have a greater reliance on forest resources, and are thus potentially an important tool in combating rural poverty. Note: Negative E means over-prediction, positive E means under-prediction Agriculture and forestry production systems can produce more than one product at a time (Amacher et al, 1993;Mahat et al, 1987). Like other linear programming-based studies (e.g., Das and Shivakoti, 2006), it is assumed that the marginal product is constant.…”

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Forests for Food Security and Livelihood Sustainability: Policy Problems and Opportunities for Small Farmers in Nepal

Dhakal

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2010

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

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In Nepal, many rural households need access to public forest resources to complement private resources for food and livestock production. However, current forest policies are largely directed at Environmental protection. The first part of this study identified the effect of current forest policy on livestock production using survey data from 259 households in three Nepal hill districts. The second part used a forestry-agriculture integrated model to examine alternative land use policies that could increase household livestock holdings and income while maintaining the environmental services of the community forest. The results show that current forest policies contributed to reductions in potential household livestock holdings by 34% for goats, 30% for cattle and 27% for buffalo. This exacerbated problems of farm fertility and food shortages in vulnerable and poor households. Modeling of alternative policy scenarios indicates that livestock holdings and income could both be increased for most households in communities practicing agroforestry while still maintaining environmental protection. The increase could be highest for the poorest households. Finally, the article discusses potential implications of new environmental policies on local food security and sustainability in the country.

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Joint production and consumption in traditional households: Fuelwood and crop residues in two districts in Nepal

Cited by 82 publications

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Understanding household demand for indoor air pollution control in developing countries

Understanding household demand for indoor air pollution control in developing countries

Socioeconomic Impacts of Public Forest Policies on Heterogeneous Agricultural Households

Forests for Food Security and Livelihood Sustainability: Policy Problems and Opportunities for Small Farmers in Nepal

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