Agricultural expansion, forest products as safety nets, and deforestation

Delacote, Philippe

doi:10.1017/s1355770x06003482

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“…Because participation is voluntary, the compared to farming, which provides seasonal and often fluctuating income. Commonly, income from NTFP extraction is less risky compared to farming income, in which case households use NTFP extraction as a risk-free asset to smooth income fluctuations (Delacote, 2007;Alderman and Paxson, 1994). Furthermore, greater integration of NTFP markets relative to agricultural markets in our study areas would mean that income from NTFP extraction and farming are not correlated.…”

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confidence: 96%

Decentralization, market integration and efficiency-equity trade-offs: Evidence from Joint Forest Management in Ethiopian villages

Gelo

Muchapondwa

Koch

2016

JFE

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Extant literature on Joint Forest Management (JFM) impact evaluation has concluded that it generally does not provide sufficient incentives to justify the costs that forest use restrictions impose on local people. However, there is a dearth of evidence concerning whether alternative JFM intervention with improved market linkages for non-timber forest products has similar implications. In this study, we evaluated the income and distributive effects of a JFM program in Ethiopia in which additional support was provided for improved market linkages for non-timber forest products (NTFPs). Exploiting exogenous variation in customary rights across eligible groups of communities that participate in JFM programs, as well as using heteroskedasticitybased instrumentations, we identified the income and distributive effects of the program. Our analysis shows that the program has raised the income of the households who chose to participate by approximately 400 Ethiopian Birr or 26% of per capita expenditure; that result was robust to various specifications. We also found that this effect is largely driven by marketing incentives to use non-timber forest products. However, we found that the program's benefit is * We thank associate editor, Professor Arild Angelsen, and the reviewer for their comments. We are grateful to Volkswagen Foundation and University of Johannesburg for funding postdoc fellowships of the first author and Economic Research Southern Africa for its support of this research. We also gratefully acknowledge generous financial support of EfD (EDRI/ EEPFE) SIDA for collection of the data used for analysis of this paper. 1 biased toward the upper end of the income distribution, a result that points to the inequalityreinforcing effects of the program.

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Decentralization, market integration and efficiency-equity trade-offs: Evidence from Joint Forest Management in Ethiopian villages

Gelo

Muchapondwa

Koch

2016

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“…Similarly, Delacote (2007) showed that when tree production is seen as having relatively low profitability and low risk compared to agricultural production, risk-averse households will plant trees to smooth consumption. However, if risk in agriculture is reduced, forest cover will be reduced because the need for consumption smoothing provided by the trees is less.…”

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Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock and tree holdings of rural households

Andersson

Mekonnen

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2011

Journal of Development Economics

130

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We evaluated the impacts of the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on rural households' holdings of livestock and forest assets including trees. Using panel data, we applied both regression analysis and propensity score matching. We found no indication that participation in PSNP induces households to disinvest in livestock or trees. In fact, households that participated in the program increased the number of trees planted, but there was no increase in their livestock holdings. We found no evidence that the PSNP protects livestock in times of shock. Shocks appear to lead households to disinvest in livestock, but not in trees. Our results suggest that there is increased forestry activity as a result of PSNP, and that improved credit access encourages households to increase their livestock holdings.

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“…Ward et al (2010) reports that gender balance in agricultural productivity brings about equal distribution of resources resulting in production efficiency and increased incomes. Gender complementarity is necessary for commercialization of underutilized plants since each of the actors have a unique role to play (De Caluwe 2011, Delacote 2007). …”

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Commercialization of Underutilized Plants in Uganda: An analysis of the market chains of Luffa cylindrica L.

Barirega

Damme²

2014

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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Agricultural expansion, forest products as safety nets, and deforestation

Cited by 65 publications

References 25 publications

Decentralization, market integration and efficiency-equity trade-offs: Evidence from Joint Forest Management in Ethiopian villages

Decentralization, market integration and efficiency-equity trade-offs: Evidence from Joint Forest Management in Ethiopian villages

Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock and tree holdings of rural households

Commercialization of Underutilized Plants in Uganda: An analysis of the market chains of Luffa cylindrica L.

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