Forests, Livelihoods, and Conservation: Broadening the Empirical Base

By Sven Wunder, A. Angelsen, B. Belcher. 2014

318 citations recorded by the source corpus.

More than 10,000years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural smallholders across the developing world may still derive as much income from foraging forests and wildlands as from cultivating crops. These steady environmental income flows come often from public forests, and are extracted by men and women alike. However, inflexible supplies from nature, the physical hardship of harvesting, and commonly low returns limit their role as safety nets and pathways out of poverty. While their harvesting does not preclude the ongoing conversion of wildlands to agriculture, privileged access to high-quality environmental resources can become a strong local conservation motive.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. C. Shackleton

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Mallika Sardeshpande
2. Janet Franklin
3. M. McCarthy
4. Mark A. Burgman
5. David A. Keith
6. Nicholas J. Murray
7. C. Shackleton
8. J. Link

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Janet Franklin
2. M. McCarthy
3. David A. Keith
4. C. Shackleton
5. J. Link
6. T. Brooks
7. Mallika Sardeshpande

Citations in the corpus

• The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems: Motivations, Challenges, and Applications (2015, background): “Finally, people value and relate to ecosystems and places, even though they may not recognize many component species (Dallimer et al. 2012; Wunder et al. 2014).”
• Parks versus PES: Evaluating direct and incentive-based land conservation in Mexico (2017, unknown): “These include more flexibly zoned protected area types and payments for ecosystem services (Ferraro 2001, Ferraro and Simpson 2002, Jack et al. 2008, Wunder et al. 2008, 2014, Pechacek et al. 2013).”
• Wild Edible Fruits: A Systematic Review of an Under-Researched Multifunctional NTFP (Non-Timber Forest Product) (2019, background): “However, more recent literature [115,135] finds no consistent relationship between poverty and NTFP use, and that evidence in support of NTFP poverty traps is scarce [132].”
• Making a bridge between livelihoods and forest conservation: Lessons from non timber forest products' utilization in South Sumatera, Indonesia (2018, background): “Furthermore, NTFPs contribute significantly not only to the livelihoods of rural residents (Sunderlin et al., 2005; Wunder, 2003; Wunder et al., 2014; Neumann and Hirsch, 2000; Steele et al., 2014), but also to those who are less formally forest proximate people (Newton et al., 2016).”