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Authors |
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Manuel Ruiz-Pérez, Brian Belcher,
Ramadhani Achdiawan, Miguel Alexiades, Catherine
Aubertin, Javier Caballero, Bruce Campbell, Charles
Clement, Tony Cunningham, Alfredo Fantini, Hubert de
Foresta, Carmen García Fernández, Krishna H Gautam, Paul
Hersch Martínez, Wil de Jong, Koen Kusters, M. Govindan
Kutty, Citlalli López, Maoyi Fu, Miguel Angel Martínez
Alfaro, T.K. Raghavan Nair, Ousseynou Ndoye, Rafael
Ocampo, Nitin Rai, Martin Ricker, Kate Schreckenberg,
Sheona Shackleton, Patricia Shanley, Terry Sunderland,
and Yeo-Chang Youn |
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Abstract |
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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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Keywords |
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Commercialization, forest use, market
development, nontimber forest products, poverty,
resource management, specialization. |