Non-Timber Forest Products Based Household Industries and Rural Economy—A Case Study of Jaypur Block in Bankura District, West Bengal (India)

Nandi, Debmita; Sarkar, Sumana

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-56542-8_21

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“…Nonetheless, there is empirical support for certain noteworthy NTFPs; for example, Shea butter in Burkina Faso is the country's third most crucial export (Schreckenberg 2004). In Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, and Zambia, honey, mushrooms, wood fuel fruits, leaves, etc, are provided between 4-60% of income to locals in these countries (Mulenga et al, 2012;Nandi & Sarkar, 2021;Tincani, 2012). In Ethiopia, gums and resins rank second only to livestock in their impact on household livelihoods (Mekonnen et al, 2013).…”

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A Review of the Potential of Non-timber Forest Products to Alleviate Poverty

Asamoah,

Danquah,

Bamwesigye

et al. 2023

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Non-timber forest Products (NTFPs) are a broad category of natural resources harvested from forests that do not involve cutting down trees for their wood or timber. NTFPs play a vital role in the livelihoods and economies of many rural communities, particularly in forest-dependent regions. Despite the benefits obtained from NTFPS, little is known about its potential to alleviate poverty in the local communities. The objective of this review is to comprehensively assess the potential of NTFP's contribution to poverty reduction within forest fringe communities. The study employed the systematic review method to delve into the multifaceted relationship between NTFPs and poverty alleviation. We followed the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses protocol (PRISM-P). In all, 58 research articles were reviewed. The results indicated that NTFPs hold significant promise as a tool for poverty alleviation. Globally, NTFPs have the potential to alleviate poverty and increase household incomes between 19% and 78% within forest fringe rural communities. In addition, the review indicated that countries in Africa and Asia depend highly on NTFPs and provide substantial amounts of income to the locals. However, the potential for NTFPs to reduce poverty is not uniform. It is highly contingent upon local ecological conditions, market accessibility, community involvement, and supporting policies and interventions. In conclusion, this systematic review demonstrates that NTFPs have a substantial role in poverty alleviation. This study underscores the need for continued research and targeted development initiatives to unlock the vast potential of NTFPs in addressing poverty challenges.

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confidence: 99%

A Review of the Potential of Non-timber Forest Products to Alleviate Poverty

Asamoah,

Danquah,

Bamwesigye

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…The greed of businesspeople and big investors has created people's powerlessness in forest areas. People are forced to become victims of businesspeople who cover companies licensed to use forest products (Gerber and Haller 2021;Nandi and Sarkar 2021). Communities living around forests and along watersheds have lost their agricultural businesses due to various natural disasters (Ali et al 2020), ranging from extreme climate change to floods and landslides (Dalagnol et al 2022).…”

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Deforestation as a catalyst for natural disaster and community suffering: A cycle in the socioecological system

Golar,

Muis,

Isrun

et al. 2024

Folia Forestalia Polonica

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Lore Lindu National Park (LLNP) is a conservation area that contains a lot of wood resources. Various illegal community activities have become widespread, such as illegal mining and illegal logging. So, this research aims to determine the involvement of communities around forest areas in material and wood theft from June to October 2021. To determine forest encroachment, we find explanatory variables, using qualitative description integrated with perceptual tests and Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis. Based on the results of the 10-fold cross-validation analysis with the smallest Rcv (x-Val relative error) value of 0.428, with a classification accuracy of 68.6%, a four-node optimum tree was obtained, which explained that as many as 86 forest encroachers were victims of a vast landslide disaster along with flood and whirlwind, due to which there was no longer any property left for them. Their encroachment affected the condition of land cover. The data on the land cover change, from 2010 to 2020, showed a reduction of 15,369.20 ha or 6.90%, which indicated a severe threat to the sustainability of LLNP as a biodiversity conservation area that should be protected. The involvement in illegal logging by communities living around the forest areas resulted from the loss of their agricultural land for their livelihoods due to natural disasters such as flood, landslide and whirlwind that destroyed infrastructure and community settlement facilities. As a result, these losses and destruction were a catalyst for forest destruction. Initially being in the frontline for preserving the forest, however, the community has now turned into silent partners with licensed wood businesspeople. The community eventually becomes a subsystem in the social ecology system (SES), which negatively affects the destruction of forest resources, production and conservation forests.

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