2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.002
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Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence

Abstract: This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland. We use a large dataset comprising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty-seven percent of sampled households had converted forest to agriculture during the previous 12 months, clearing on average 1.21 ha. Male-headed households with abundance of male labor, living in recently settled places with high forest cover, unsurprisingly tended to clear more, but regional peculiarities abounded. Households with m… Show more

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“…The drivers, effects and quality of this transformation are the subject of a number of recent publications, including this special edition of GH, fuelling an increasingly intense debate on agriculture and sustainable rural livelihoods which has gained traction since the 2007 financial and subsequent economic crises (Babigumira et al, 2014;Collier and Dercon, 2014;Diao et al, 2010;Hazell et al, 2010;Henley, 2012;Jayne et al, 2010;Kerr, 2012;Riggs and Vandergeest, 2012). Questions on gendered effects and genderspecific realities in the rural contexts form a prominent part of these debates, driven by the assumption that women's roles in agriculture are substantial but inadequately documented and poorly understood.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The drivers, effects and quality of this transformation are the subject of a number of recent publications, including this special edition of GH, fuelling an increasingly intense debate on agriculture and sustainable rural livelihoods which has gained traction since the 2007 financial and subsequent economic crises (Babigumira et al, 2014;Collier and Dercon, 2014;Diao et al, 2010;Hazell et al, 2010;Henley, 2012;Jayne et al, 2010;Kerr, 2012;Riggs and Vandergeest, 2012). Questions on gendered effects and genderspecific realities in the rural contexts form a prominent part of these debates, driven by the assumption that women's roles in agriculture are substantial but inadequately documented and poorly understood.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…La agricultura de subsistencia, la producción forestal, el asalariado temporal, el comercio y las remesas son las actividades que hacen diferencias según la condición del hogar. La agricultura de subsistencia constituye un medio de vida rural relevante para un porcentaje de hogares en países en desarrollo donde la tala de pequeñas áreas de bosque natural permite sembrar maíz, arroz, yuca y bananos (Babigumira, et al, 2014). Para un hogar pobre, según nuestra encuesta, la agricultura es mucho más relevante que para uno no pobre (ver Anexo 4), lo cual a menudo se asume como parte de la actividad de subsistencia.…”
Section: Actividades Económicas De Los Hogaresunclassified
“…La extracción de algunos productos compartida por ambos (hombres y mujeres) tiene un comportamiento similar a los datos encontrados por Sunderland, et al (2014) en América Latina, donde esta categoría tiene más peso porcentual al compararla con el porcentaje de ciertos productos, como la caza de animales para la obtención de carne, y la extracción de forrajes y fibras, que son únicamente extraídos por las mujeres. Al analizar la extracción de recursos por la condición de pobreza de los hogares, como se mencionó antes, las respuestas indican que la extracción de madera es más relevante entre los hogares no pobres y pobres.…”
Section: Las Diferencias De Género En El Aprovechamiento Del Bosqueunclassified
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