The good, the bad and the ugly: income determinants and a typology of commercial agarwood harvesters in Lao PDR

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Anders Jensen and Henrik Meilby

Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics, 8-11, issue 41

Abstract: Based on interviews with 103 leaders of groups harvesting agarwood in various parts of Lao PDR we identify income determinants and prepare a typology of harvesters. There are three main groups of harvesters: [a] highly professional, migrant harvesters from Vietnam; [b] nonlocal, professional harvesters and [c] local harvesters. From interpretation of auxiliary information it emerges that groups [b] and [c] can be further subdivided based on experience and harvesting strategy and in the final typology we therefore distinguish five categories of harvesters. Income determinants are mainly related to product and market variables, structural characteristics of harvesting groups, opportunistic harvesting and knowledge and experience.

Keywords: stratification; commercial NTFP; Aquilaria; eaglewood; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; International Development; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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