Community forest management, gender and fuelwood collection in rural Nepal
Priscilla Cooke St. Clair
Journal of Forest Economics, 2016, vol. 24, issue C, 52-71
Abstract:
This paper investigates how Forest User Group (FUG) management of community forests and household characteristics influence household allocation of male and female labor to fuelwood collection in rural Nepal. FUG collection bans are found to displace both landed and landless female fuelwood collection labor to other forests that are typically further away, but lower restrictions do not. A higher female FUG executive committee share has both conservation and equity enhancing effects by lowering the likelihoods that landless, Dalit, landed and non-Dalit women collect in other forests, and increasing the likelihood landless males collect in the FUG forest.
Keywords: Community forestry; Fuelwood; Nepal; Gender; Dalit; Landless (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 O15 Q12 Q15 Q23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jfe.2016.03.002
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