Poverty and commercialization of non-timber forest products

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Alejandro Lopez-Feldman (lopezfeldman@gmail.com)

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Abstract: While there is much interest by NGOs and environmental groups in the potential of non-timber forest products (NTFP) programs to si- multaneously achieve conservation and poverty alleviation, there is not a great deal of understanding of whether they work in practice, and how incentives and local management do, indeed affect poverty and local resource use. In this paper I propose a methodology to analyze the potential impacts that price increases can have on the income that extractors receive from NTFP extraction. The case study illustrates how one could evaluate the effectiveness of different price scenarios. It also shows the kind of biologic and socioeconomic information that is needed to apply the methodology suggested. The more accurate the information is the more confident one can be about the policy recommendations. This is an area of opportunity where applied research between economists and ecologists can lead to con- crete policy applications.

Keywords: Non-timber forest products; poverty; resource extraction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 Q20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2011-02
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