Poverty Alleviation and Tropical Forests—What Scope for Synergies?

By Sven Wunder. 2001

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Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change

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Who are forest-dependent people? A taxo nomy to aid livelihood and land use decision-making in forested regions (2016, background): “While the use of the word ‘dependency’ in the context of development policy has been critiqued (Lall, 1975; Fraser and Gordon, 1994), most authors that focus on dependency in the context of forests and people use the term to infer that forest-dependent people’s livelihoods may be reliant on forests…”
Invisible But Viable: Recognising Local Markets for Non-Timber Forest Products (2007, background): “Generally, local markets are believed to have limited capacity for development and growth and often face problems of oversupply (Wunder 2001), and some local trades have been shown decline and disappear (Mead and Liedholm 1998).”
The Efficiency of Payments for Environmental Services in Tropical Conservation (2007, background): “Moreover, fundamental doubts exist as to how much sense it makes to forcedly link conservation and poverty alleviation agendas when trade-offs outweigh synergies (Wunder 2001; Adams et al. 2004).”
Risk coping strategies in tropical forests: floods, illnesses, and resource extraction (2004, background): “1 This link between asset poverty and resource extraction as insurance may be very significant in tropical forests where the livelihoods of the poor often depend on the extraction of biological resources in a biodiverse yet fragile environment (Coomes and Barham, 1997; Byron and Arnold, 1999; Arnold”
Household livelihoods in semi-arid regions: options and constraints (2002, positive): “• attempt to improve macro-economic conditions, make sure safety nets are protected while not building poverty traps (Wunder 2001); • remove restrictive policies that limit the opportunities of farmers (Mortimore 1998; Arrighi 2002; Bryceson 2002); • put resources into education and skills developme”
Effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) on Deforestation and Poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review (2014, methodology): “…and poverty reduction goals conflict, how different conservation strategies fare in terms of such trade-offs, and the scope for ‘win-win’ strategies that generate both significant conservation and poverty reduction benefits (Muradian et al., 2013; Sunderlin et al., 2005; Wunder, 2001, 2013).”
Wealth differentiation in household use and trade in non-timber forest products in South Africa (2009, background): “Findings from Zimbabwe and elsewhere highlight that in terms of quantity, wealthy households tend to consume more, although the poor may be more resource dependent ([Cavendish, 2000], [Wunder, 2001] and [De Merode et al.”
Forests, Livelihoods, and Conservation: Broadening the Empirical Base (2014, background): “This is also why natural forests and wildlands often remain especially abundant in inaccessible areas with rugged topography and/or soil limitations, where agricultural conversion has not been worthwhile (Joppa & Pfaff, 2009; Wunder, 2001).”
Are we getting there? Evidence of decentralized forest management from the Tanzanian Miombo woodlands (2008, background): “Yet, the question is under which conditions local management will conserve natural resources ( Wunder 2001 ) and how changes in rights to these resources ‐ e.g.”
The importance of local forest benefits: Economic valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania (2014, positive): “many of whom already live near the poverty line, is likely to decrease if NTFP harvesting is restricted (Wunder, 2001).”