Poverty and the Environment: Exploring the Relationship Between Household Incomes, Private Assets, and Natural Assets

Narain, Urvashi; Gupta, Shreekant; Veld, Klaas van ’t

doi:10.2139/ssrn.850071

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“…2000;Adhikari, 2005;and Narian et al, 2005). Cavendish (2000) argues that actual household income is usually underestimated, because household income measurements usually omit benefits generated from freely extracted goods and services from common pool natural resources.…”

Section: Resource Dependencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…resource dependency declines after a threshold value of income. Furthermore, based on a study of forest dependency in rural India, Narian et al (2005) argue that the relationship between resource use and the wealth of households is more complicated. In particular, for households that extract positive amounts of the CPNRs, the dependency follows a U-shaped relationship with income.…”

Section: Resource Dependencymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Household Welfare, Investment in Soil and Water Conservation and Tenure Security: Evidence from Kenya

Kabubo-Mariara

Linderhof²,

Kruseman

et al. 2009

SSRN Journal

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In Kenya, conservation and sustainable utilization of the environment and natural resources form an integral part of national planning and poverty reduction efforts. However, weak environmental management practices are a major impediment to agricultural productivity growth. This study was motivated by the paucity of literature on the poverty-environment nexus in Kenya, since poverty, agricultural stagnation and environmental degradation are issues of policy interest in the country's development strategy. The paper builds on the few existing studies from Kenya and explores the impact of household, farm and village characteristics as well as the development domain dimensions on household welfare and investment in soil and water conservation. The results show that strengthening the tenure security improves household welfare. Further, soil quality, topography and investments in soil and water conservation affect household welfare. Agroecological potential, which is related to environmental conservation, is also a key correlate of poverty. Results for investment in water and soil conservation confirm the importance of tenure security in determining adoption and also the intensity of SWC investments. We also find that household assets, farm characteristics, presence of village institutions and development domain dimensions are important determinants of adoption and intensity of soil and water conservation investments. The results for both poverty and investment in soil and water conservation suggest the existence of a strong poverty-environment link in our sample. The results also suggest that rural poverty can be alleviated by policies that improve environmental conservation and strengthen land tenure security. The study also underscores the importance of village institutions in both investment adoption of soil and water conservation and in improving household welfare.PREM Working Paper: PREM 06/06

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Section: Resource Dependencymentioning

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Section: Resource Dependencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Household Welfare, Investment in Soil and Water Conservation and Tenure Security: Evidence from Kenya

Kabubo-Mariara

Linderhof²,

Kruseman

et al. 2009

SSRN Journal

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“…Also, there had been frequently burning of existing larger plantations and this was associated with the increasing scarcity in land ownership by the villagers. The same argument had been canvassed by Narain et al [19] who found that households with less land tend to perceive conservation programmes as a limitation to their subsistence needs and therefore are likely to have negative attitude toward conservation. Masozera [20], Reardon and Vostii [21] Chemicals.…”

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confidence: 70%

The Environmental Challenges of Biomass Utilisation for Combined Heat and Power Generation in a Paper Mill in Tanzania

Massawe¹,

Olorunnisola²

2015

J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl

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Biomass-driven, combined heat and power (CHP) also known as co-generation plants are said to provide reliable, efficient, clean power and heat worldwide. However, it is known that the use of biomass for energy applications may lead to land use competition, environmental degradation and food in-security. This study was therefore carried out at a Paper Mill and the seven surrounding villages with the aim of assessing the environmental challenge of wood biomass utilisation for CHP generation.Data were collected by interviewing technical staff at the paper mill, Sao Hill Plantation, Government officials from Ministry of energy and other energy regulatory bodies. A questionnaire was used to collect data from seven villages surrounding the paper mill while a check list was used to collect information on environmental management aspect within the paper mill departments. Descriptive Statistics was used in assessing environmental challenge of biomass use at the Paper Mill while a chi square was used also to establish the relationship and association between variables.Findings revealed that there were negative impacts on air quality, land use and water. The chi square test revealed that there was no significant difference (ᵡ 2 =0.253 and p > 0.05) in having environmental problems and distance from Paper Mill. It was also observed that arable land which was needed to grow trees was becoming scarce affecting the sustainable supply of raw materials.

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“…In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, where perhaps 90 percent of the population relies on woodfuels for cooking (GEF 2013;IEA, 2006), the use of charcoal as a cooking fuel is still increasing rapidly, with the value of the charcoal industry there estimated at USD 8 billion in 2007(World Bank, 2011. In Asia, even better-off rural households have often been observed to be highly dependent on woodfuels, as found by Narain et al (2005) for India, the Government of Nepal (GN, 2004) for Nepal, and Chaudhuri and Pfaff (2002) for Pakistan. With the volatile and often high price of "modern" energy sources, this situation is unlikely to change for some time, a fact often neglected in policy discussions on "energy futures" in low-income nations, which place unrealistic emphasis on "more modern" energy sources, rather than attempting to make woodfuel production and use more efficient and sustainable (Iiyama et al, 2014a;Schure et al, 2013).…”

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2. Understanding the Roles of Forests and Tree-based Systems in Food Provision

Jamnadass¹,

McMullin²,

Iiyama³

et al. 2015

Forests and Food

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Poverty and the Environment: Exploring the Relationship Between Household Incomes, Private Assets, and Natural Assets

Cited by 44 publications

References 10 publications

Household Welfare, Investment in Soil and Water Conservation and Tenure Security: Evidence from Kenya

Household Welfare, Investment in Soil and Water Conservation and Tenure Security: Evidence from Kenya

The Environmental Challenges of Biomass Utilisation for Combined Heat and Power Generation in a Paper Mill in Tanzania

2. Understanding the Roles of Forests and Tree-based Systems in Food Provision

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