Rates of return on investments in cattle among Amerindians of the rain forest of Honduras

Godoy, Ricardo; Brokaw, Nicholas; Wilkie, David; Cruz, Glauber; Cubas, Adoni; Demmer, Josefien; McSweeney, Kendra; Overman, Han

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“…Increased state surveillance of Tawahka extractive activities following RBTA ratification increased the cost and risk of forest product sales, a formerly important off-farm income option (40,47). NGO-run development projects also effectively discouraged the Tawahka from raising cattle (seen as environmentally unfriendly), despite its importance as a source of savings and insurance for local households (40,51). nerability.…”

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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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“…Farm-household deforestation models have been developed to explain, and to establish the relationship between household characteristics and deforestation (Kaimowitz and Angelsen, 1998;Foster et al, 1997;Godoy et al, 1996Godoy et al, , 1998Holden et al, 1998;Pichon, 1997a;Jones et al, 1995;Ozorio de Almeida and Campari, 1995) based on socio-economic and demographic variables. However, the conclusions of the majority of these models varied widely and many appeared to only apply locally to the cases studied which may or may not be representative of other areas.…”

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“…Differences found in the models may be explained by the lack of consistency in the definition of the dependent variable (deforestation). Some studies took into account the amount of land deforested since farm establishment (Ozorio de Almeida and Campari, 1995), amount of annual forest cleared (Holden et al, 1998), change in average forest cover cleared per household (Foster et al, 1997) and percentage of farmland still in forest (Pichon, 1997a;Mun˜oz, 1992), while others use only the amount of primary cleared forest annually (Godoy et al, 1996(Godoy et al, , 1997 and average area of cleared forest per year (Jones et al, 1995).…”

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Land tenure, population pressure, and deforestation in Haiti: The case of Forêt des Pins Reserve

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Haiti, with a forest cover estimated at 3% of all land area, has experienced severe degradation of its natural resources and a significant change in its land cover. While deforestation in Haiti is obviously multifaceted, one issue emerges from previous empirical analysis in explaining deforestation: land tenure. This study focuses on the causes of deforestation in Haiti, particularly in Foreˆt des Pins Reserve, using the annual average area of cleared forest per household as the dependent variable. Data were collected with the use of a survey instrument administered to 243 farm households in 15 villages inside the Reserve. Tobit Regression results reveal that household size, education of head of the household, land tenure regime, and farm labor are important factors affecting land clearing.

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“…Research on the impact of markets on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America suggests there is considerable uncertainty about community‐level changes following increased market access and trade (Godoy et al . 1995, Godoy et al . 1996, Godoy et al .…”

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Inter‐Indigenous development aid: markets, corporations, and biases

Finley-Brook

2011

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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The Canadian government and the Meadow Lake Tribal Council sponsored a forest extraction corporation in eastern Nicaragua that restructured 16 Miskitu and Mayangna villages and transformed local human-environment interactions. The Central American aid project demonstrated paternalistic and interventionist tendencies and exposed biases in inter-Indigenous aid that rendered it inseparable from conventional aid. This case encourages reflection on social and ecological impacts from the marketing of collective resources, the creation of Indigenous development corporations, and the decision-making criteria and processes driving foreign aid. The case study demonstrates how foreign aid programs targeting Indigenous Peoples may actually thwart the self-determination that they set out to encourage. Aid agencies and business partners, who had limited knowledge of local cultures and institutions, created externally defined rules that instigated resource conflicts and undermined the authority of customary leaders without resolving poverty or uneven development. L'aide au développement entre indigènes : Marchés, sociétés, et préjugés A l'est du Nicaragua, seize villages Miskitu et Mayangna ontété restructurés par une société forestière parrainée par le gouvernement canadien et le Meadow Lake Tribal Council, ce qui a entraîné des transformations des institutions locales et des interactions homme-environnement. En Amérique centrale, ce projet d'aide internationale a fait découvrir des tendances paternalistes et interventionnistes et révélé despréjugés qui empêchent de distinguer l'aide entre indigènes de l'aide conventionnelle. Cetteétude de cas motive une réflexionà propos des effets sociaux etécologiques de la commercialisation des ressources collectives, de la création de corporations indigènes pour le développement, et des critères de décision liésà l'assistance transnationale pour le développement. Elle montre comment l'aideétrangère qui cible les peuples autochtones peut compromettre leur autonomie, alors même qu'elle viseà l'encourager. Les agences d'aide et les partenaires d'affaires, qui ont une connaissance limitée des cultures locales et des institutions, ont appliqué des règles définies de l'extérieur, ce qui a provoqué des conflits de ressources et sapé l'autorité des leaders traditionnels, sans résoudre les problèmes de pauvreté et d'inégalité de développement.

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Rates of return on investments in cattle among Amerindians of the rain forest of Honduras

Cited by 8 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

Land tenure, population pressure, and deforestation in Haiti: The case of Forêt des Pins Reserve

Inter‐Indigenous development aid: markets, corporations, and biases

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