Forests in poverty reduction strategies : capturing the potential

By T. Oksanen, B. Pajari, T. Tuomasjukka. 2003

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Why Forests Are Important for Global Poverty Alleviation: a Spatial Explanation (2008, background): “Forests can function as a form of savings (Chambers et al. 1993) and as a form of natural insurance (Pattanayak and Sills 2001, McSweeney 2004).”
Charcoal, livelihoods, and poverty reduction: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (2013, background): “Still, the status/role of forestry/woodfuel sectors in poverty alleviation can be enhanced nationally, by increasing anddisseminating knowledge of their contributions to poverty reduction effectively, focusing international assistance on removing povertyreduction barriers in woodfuel/forest policies”
Poverty alleviation and forests in Vietnam (2005, background): “Among the key titles are those by: Byron and Arnold (1999); Schmidt et al. (1999); Arnold (2001); FAO and DFID (2001); Gutman (2001); Wunder (2001); Scherr et al. (2002); and Smith and Scherr (2002); Oksanen and Mersmann (2002); Angelsen and Wunder (2003); FAO (2003b); and Oksanen et al. (2003).”
The poverty of forestry policy: double standards on an uneven playing field (2007, background): “…commercial and subsistence value of forests is drawing increased attention to their potential role in poverty alleviation (Kaimowitz and Ribot 2002; Oksanen et al. 2003; Sunderlin et al. 2005), although there may also be tradeoffs between forest conservation and poverty alleviation (Wunder 2001;…”
DOMESTICATING INDIGENOUS FRUIT TREES AS A CONTRIBUTION TO POVERTY REDUCTION (2006, background): “…addressed the links between forests and poverty, highlighting the potential of forest-based activities for income generation, as well as emphasizing the need to protect and promote the many safety-net functions of forests (Mayers and Vermeulen 2002, Oksanen et al. 2003, van Gardingen 2003).”
The importance of dry woodlands and forests in rural livelihoods and poverty alleviation in South Africa (2007, background): “It has been long appreciated, both internationally and within South Africa, that forests (in the broadest sense of the word) offer numerous benefits to adjacent communities and society at large (Wollenberg and Ingles, 1998, Oksanen et al., 2003 and Lawes et al., 2004a).”
Clean and improved cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014, unknown): “In aggregate, informal and formal woodfuel-sector employment, including part-time labor, could exceed 15 million individuals across the entire SSA region (Oksanen et al. 2003).”