Forest use strategies and their determinants among rural households in the Miombo woodlands of the Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Moses Kazungu, Eliza Zhunusova, Anastasia Lucy Yang, Gillian Kabwe, Davison J. Gumbo and Sven Günter

Forest Policy and Economics, 2020, vol. 111, issue C

Abstract: Forest landscapes in tropical and subtropical areas support the livelihoods of their inhabitants through subsistence use of products, and cash income obtained from the sale of products. Despite its contribution to livelihoods, it remains unclear how forest products play a role in forest use strategies and what affects different forest use strategies, particularly in rural tropical Africa. A better understanding of forest-based livelihood strategies could be an important basis for the design of sustainable development policies. In this study, we use cluster analysis to identify forest use strategies and apply multinomial logistic regression to determine the factors affecting forest use strategy choices using data from 412 households in four sites in the rural Copperbelt province.

Keywords: Unprocessed forest products; Processed forest products; Charcoal; Cluster; Multinomial model; Livelihood; Zambia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102078

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