Forest Product Sale as Natural Insurance: The Effects of Household Characteristics and the Nature of Shock in Eastern Honduras

By K. McSweeney. 2004

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview (2005, background): “…the poorest of the poor around the world are those that use NTFPs the most (Neumann & Hirsch, 2000), that the poor frequently use NTFPs as an ‘‘employment of last resort’’ (Angelsen & Wunder, 2003), and that they serve an important safety net function (e.g., McSweeney, 2004; Pandit & Thapa, 2004).”
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).”
Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock and tree holdings of rural households (2011, background): “2 For the role of forest products as natural insurance, see, e.g., McSweeney (2004).”
Safety Nets, Gap Filling and Forests: A Global-Comparative Perspective (2014, background): “, 2012; Falconer, 1990, 1992; Fisher & Shively, 2007; Khundi, Jagger, Shively, & Sserunkuuma, 2011), Asia (Gunatilake, Senaratine, & Abeygunawardena, 1993; Liswanti, Sheil, Basuki, Padmanaba, & Mulcahy, 2011; Völker & Waibel, 2010), and Latin America (Godoy et al., 1998; Hecht, Anderson, & May, 1988”
Forests, Livelihoods, and Conservation: Broadening the Empirical Base (2014, background): “…avoiding falling into (deeper) poverty, not only as safety nets in response to (unforeseen) shocks such as bad harvests, family illness, etc. (e.g., McSweeney, 2004; Pattanayak & Sills, 2001), but also as seasonal gap-fillers during (foreseeable) income slack periods, such as between agricultural…”
Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation (2007, background): “Such individuals may be market-oriented or not, or more likely some combination, and they defy reduction to conventional developmentalist descriptors such as autarkic or market-integrated (see McSweeney 2004a).”
The Role of Forest-Related Income in Household Economies and Rural Livelihoods in the Border-Region of Southern China (2013, background): “Many of the case studies that focus on forest and environmental income from natural forests suggest that forest products play a role in filling seasonal income gaps and as safety nets in times of crises (Byron & Arnold, 1999; Fisher & Shively, 2005; McSweeney, 2004; Pattanayak & Sills, 2001; Paumgar”
Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods: A Global-Comparative Analysis (2014, background): ““poverty trap” debate focuses on whether high environmental reliance serves as a safety net by preventing poor households from falling into deeper poverty, or whether inferior good characteristics of forest resources keep households trapped in poverty (Angelsen & Wunder, 2003; Barbier, 2010; McSween”
Contribution of forest provisioning ecosystem services to rural livelihoods in the Miombo woodlands of Zambia (2013, result): “These findings are in contrast to those of previous research (Babulo et al. 2008; McSweeney 2004), which reported that female-headed households are more engaged in the sale of forest products.”