Household welfare and forest dependence in Southern Malawi

By M. Fisher. Environment and Development Economics, 2004

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: A conceptual framework (2014, unknown): “Fisher (2004) explores the contribution of forests to livelihoods in Malawi, illustrating the distinctions between reduction and prevention.”
From Subsistence to Safety Nets and Cash Income: Exploring the Diverse Values of Non-timber Forest Products for Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation (2011, background): “These low barriers to entry combined with the fact that, in many instances, access rights are held in common and so tenureship may not be claimed by more powerful individuals and groups (Beck and Nesmith 2001), means that this activity provides an important option for poor and marginalised household”
The role of non-timber forest products in household coping strategies in South Africa: the influence of household wealth and gender (2011, background): “Fisher (2004) and Dovie et al. (2006) both noted that households with livestock were therefore less dependent on NTFPs.”
Forest Incomes and Poverty Alleviation Under Participatory Forest Management in the Bale Highlands, Southern Ethiopia (2010, background): “For instance, in Malawi (Fisher 2004), young and old age (<35 years and >45 years) get more income from low-value forest products and less from high-value forest products whereas the reverse is true for middle age groups (35 - 44 years old).”
The forbidden fuel: Charcoal, urban woodfuel demand and supply dynamics, community forest management and woodfuel policy in Malawi (2010, unknown): “However, safeguards are needed for the poor because regulations and taxes made the poor worse off (also see Fisher, 2004).”
How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective (2015, background): “Although buying food, clothing, inputs and services, and producing cash crops or selling wild resources is not new in Africa (Cavendish, 2000; Fisher, 2004), focus group respondents in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal, Kenya (Nyando), and Uganda (Albertine Rift) indicated that the use of natural…”
Poverty, development, and environment (2010, background): “However, poorer households in remote locations are the least likely to participate in offfarm employment, as they face higher transaction and transportation costs (Shively and Fisher, 2004).”
Ecosystem Services and Food Security: Economic Perspectives on Environmental Sustainability (2010, background): “Referring to the example of forests, Fisher [15] concluded that the activities of the wealthy, who are most likely to participate in timber extraction activities, pose a greater ecological threat to poverty and food security, leaving poor households vulnerable to the degradation and depletion of for”
The Socio-Economic Contribution of Non-Timber Forest Products to Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Knowledge Gaps and New Directions (2010, background): “Sander and Zeller 2007) and may reduce income inequality across households (Arnold and Townson 1998; Fisher 2004).”
Managing the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa: Policies, Incentives and Options for the Rural Poor (2010, unknown): “Similar conclusions were arrived at by Fisher (2004) and Jumbe et al. (Technical Annex 1).”
Contribution of forest provisioning ecosystem services to rural livelihoods in the Miombo woodlands of Zambia (2013, background): “2010), in Malawi (Fisher 2004), and in northern Ethiopia (Babulo et al.”
Factors affecting Income Strategies among households in Tanzanian Coastal Villages: Implications for Development-conservation initiatives (2005, background): “[28] Fisher M.”
Strengthening conceptual foundations: Analysing frameworks for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation research (2013, background): “Indeed, evidence suggests that communities lacking basic amenities and constrained to ecosystem services alone are stuck in a poverty trap (Angelsen and Wunder, 2003; Fisher, 2004).”
Poverty and resource dependence in rural India (2008, background): “…sheer volume of studies with similar findings suggests that the tendency of resource dependence to decline with income is quite robust.1 Other than Fisher (2004), however, very few studies have examined this tendency in any detail, or offered more than conjectures—supported at best by anecdotal…”