Engagement in the market changes the opportunities and strategies of forest-related peoples. Efforts to support rural development need to better understand the potential importance of markets and the way people respond to them. To this end, we compared 61 case studies of the commercial production and trade of nontimber forest products from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The results show that product use is shaped by local markets and institutions, resource abundance, and the relative level of development. Larger regional patterns are also important. High-value products tend to be managed intensively by specialized producers and yield substantially higher incomes than those generated by the less specialized producers of less managed, low-value products. We conclude that commercial trade drives a process of intensified production and household specialization among forest peoples.
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TI - Markets drive the specialization strategies of forest peoples
AU - Ruiz Perez, M.
AU - Belcher, B.
AU - Achdiawan, R.
AU - Alexiades, M.N.
AU - Aubertin, C.
AU - Caballero, C.J.
AU - Campbell, B.M.
AU - Clement, C.
AU - Cunningham, A.B.
AU - Fantini, A.C.
AU - De Foresta, H.
AU - Garcia-Fernandez, C.
AU - Gautam, K.H.
AU - Martinez, P.H.
AU - de Jong, W.
AU - Kusters, K.
AU - Kutty, M.G.
AU - Lopez, C.
AU - Maoyi Fu
AU - Alfaro, M.A.M.
AU - Nair, T.K.R.
AU - Ndoye, O.
AU - Ocampo, R.
AU - Rai, N.
AU - Ricker, M.
AU - Schreckenberg, K.
AU - Shackleton, S.
AU - Shanley, P.
AU - Sunderland, T.C.H.
AU - Yeo Chang Youn
AB - Engagement in the market changes the opportunities and strategies of forest-related peoples. Efforts to support rural development need to better understand the potential importance of markets and the way people respond to them. To this end, we compared 61 case studies of the commercial production and trade of nontimber forest products from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The results show that product use is shaped by local markets and institutions, resource abundance, and the relative level of development. Larger regional patterns are also important. High-value products tend to be managed intensively by specialized producers and yield substantially higher incomes than those generated by the less specialized producers of less managed, low-value products. We conclude that commercial trade drives a process of intensified production and household specialization among forest peoples.
PY - 2004
UR - https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/1581/
DO - https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00655-090204
KW - case reports, case studies, commercialization, forest products, forest resources, market, minor forest products, non-timber forest products, nontimber forest products, poverty, resource management, trade
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%T Markets drive the specialization strategies of forest peoples
%A Ruiz Perez, M.
%A Belcher, B.
%A Achdiawan, R.
%A Alexiades, M.N.
%A Aubertin, C.
%A Caballero, C.J.
%A Campbell, B.M.
%A Clement, C.
%A Cunningham, A.B.
%A Fantini, A.C.
%A De Foresta, H.
%A Garcia-Fernandez, C.
%A Gautam, K.H.
%A Martinez, P.H.
%A de Jong, W.
%A Kusters, K.
%A Kutty, M.G.
%A Lopez, C.
%A Maoyi Fu
%A Alfaro, M.A.M.
%A Nair, T.K.R.
%A Ndoye, O.
%A Ocampo, R.
%A Rai, N.
%A Ricker, M.
%A Schreckenberg, K.
%A Shackleton, S.
%A Shanley, P.
%A Sunderland, T.C.H.
%A Yeo Chang Youn
%D 2004
%U https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/1581/
%R https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00655-090204
%X Engagement in the market changes the opportunities and strategies of forest-related peoples. Efforts to support rural development need to better understand the potential importance of markets and the way people respond to them. To this end, we compared 61 case studies of the commercial production and trade of nontimber forest products from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The results show that product use is shaped by local markets and institutions, resource abundance, and the relative level of development. Larger regional patterns are also important. High-value products tend to be managed intensively by specialized producers and yield substantially higher incomes than those generated by the less specialized producers of less managed, low-value products. We conclude that commercial trade drives a process of intensified production and household specialization among forest peoples.
%K case reports
%K case studies
%K commercialization
%K forest products
%K forest resources
%K market
%K minor forest products
%K non-timber forest products
%K nontimber forest products
%K poverty
%K resource management
%K trade
Publication year
2004
ISSN
1708-3087
Authors
Ruiz Perez, M.; Belcher, B.; Achdiawan, R.; Alexiades, M.N.; Aubertin, C.; Caballero, C.J.; Campbell, B.M.; Clement, C.; Cunningham, A.B.; Fantini, A.C.; De Foresta, H.; Garcia-Fernandez, C.; Gautam, K.H.; Martinez, P.H.; de Jong, W.; Kusters, K.; Kutty, M.G.; Lopez, C.; Maoyi Fu; Alfaro, M.A.M.; Nair, T.K.R.; Ndoye, O.; Ocampo, R.; Rai, N.; Ricker, M.; Schreckenberg, K.; Shackleton, S.; Shanley, P.; Sunderland, T.C.H.; Yeo Chang Youn
Language
English
Keywords
case reports, case studies, commercialization, forest products, forest resources, market, minor forest products, non-timber forest products, nontimber forest products, poverty, resource management, trade
Source
Ecology and Society. 9(2):
