The Role of Forest-Related Income in Household Economies and Rural Livelihoods in the Border-Region of Southern China

Nicholas J. Hogarth, Brian Belcher, Bruce Campbell and Natasha Stacey

World Development, 2013, vol. 43, issue C, 111-123

Abstract: Quarterly socioeconomic data from 240 households are used to study the links between forest-related income and rural livelihoods in southern China. Results show average forest-related income shares of 31.5%, which was predominantly derived from cultivated non-timber sources. Forest-related income was important to households at all income levels, although lower income households were more dependent due to a lack of other sources. Higher income households monopolized off-farm income and had more land than low income households. Forest-related income could be increased by making forest land more accessible to the poor, improving productivity, and removing constraints to smallholder engagement in timber marketing.

Keywords: Asia; China; poverty alleviation; off-farm income; NTFP; environmental income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.10.010

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