Forest incomes and rural livelihoods in Chiradzulu District, Malawi

By P. Kamanga, P. Vedeld, E. Sjaastad. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Ian J. Bateman
2. R. Turner
3. A. Balmford
4. S. Morse‐Jones
5. P. V. Beukering
6. Marije Schaafsma
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2. Ian J. Bateman
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5. R. Green
6. N. Burgess
7. R. Turner
8. S. Morse‐Jones

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3. Ø. Nielsen
4. C. Smith-Hall
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Citations in the corpus

• The Socio-Economic Contribution of Non-Timber Forest Products to Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Knowledge Gaps and New Directions (2010, background): “In Chiradzulu District, Malawi, Kamanga et al. (2009) found that poor households with access to forests had much higher forest incomes than those without access.”
• Quantifying rural livelihood strategies in developing countries using an activity choice approach (2013, background): “…it is common to observe that poorer households rely more on agriculture and environmental resources in terms of income (e.g., Babulo et al., 2008; Kamanga et al., 2009)— our findings suggest that crop and environmental reliance do not change among livelihood strategies and hence these resources…”
• The importance of local forest benefits: Economic valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania (2014, positive): “Most people living in rural Tanzania depend to some degree on the collection of NTFPs, a situation that can also be found in many other African countries (e.g., Shackleton and Shackleton, 2000, 2006; Ambrose-Oji, 2003; Mamo et al., 2007; Kamanga et al., 2009; Palmer and MacGregor, 2009).”
• Contribution of forest provisioning ecosystem services to rural livelihoods in the Miombo woodlands of Zambia (2013, background): “The high contribution of forest income to poor households and the Gini-coefficient observed in this study provide evidence of the importance of FPES to the reduction in income inequality among rural households, a result in agreement with those of previous studies (Kamanga et al. 2009; Mamo et al. 20”
• Role of Forest Resources to Local Livelihoods: The Case of East Mau Forest Ecosystem, Kenya (2016, result): “This is consistent with other studies on rural communities where livelihood diversification strategies is predominant [17–19] because single livelihood strategy is insufficient for the needs of most rural households [20].”