Markets drive the specialization strategies of forest peoples

2004

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Ruiz Perez M., Belcher B., Achdiawan R., Alexiades M., Aubertin Catherine, Caballero J., Campbell B., Clement C., Cunningham T., Fantini R., Foresta Hubert de, Fernandez C.G., Gautam K.H., Martinez P.H., De Jong W., Kusters K., Kutty M.G., Lopez C., Fu M.Y., Alfaro M.A.M., Nair T.K.R., Ndoye O., Ocampo R., Rai N., Ricker M., Schreckenberg K., Shackleton S., Shanley P., Sunderland T., Youn Y.C.

Ecology and Society, 2004, 9 (2), p. NIL_23-NIL_45 ISSN 1195-5449

Engagement in the market changes the opportunities and strategies of forest-related peoples. Efforts to support rural development need to better understand the potential importance of markets and the way people respond to them. To this end, we compared 61 case studies of the commercial production and trade of nontimber forest products from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The results show that product use is shaped by local markets and institutions, resource abundance, and the relative level of development. Larger regional patterns are also important. High-value products tend to be managed intensively by specialized producers and yield substantially higher incomes than those generated by the less specialized producers of less managed, low-value products. We conclude that commercial trade drives a process of intensified production and household specialization among forest peoples.

Economie et sociologie rurale [098] ; Société, développement social [106]

Fonds IRD [F B010050916]

fdi:010050916