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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Markets drive the specialization strategies of forest peoples
Ecology and Society, Volume 9, No. 2, Article 4, Year 2004
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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. Copyright © 2004 by the author(s).
Authors & Co-Authors
Ruíz-Pérez, Manuel
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Belcher, Brian M.
Unknown Affiliation
Achdiawan, Ramadhani
Unknown Affiliation
Alexiades, Miguel N.
United Kingdom, Canterbury
University of Kent
Aubertin, Catherine
France
Ird-orléans
Caballero, Javier
Mexico, Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Campbell, Bruce M.
Unknown Affiliation
Clement, Charles Roland
Brazil, Manaus
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia
Cunningham, Tony
United Kingdom, Lyme Regis
Unesco
Fantini, Alfredo C.
Brazil, Florianopolis
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
De Foresta, Hubert
France, Marseille
Ird Institut de Recherche Pour le Developpement
Fernández, Carmen García
Unknown Affiliation
Gautam, Krishna H.
Japan, Sapporo
Hokkaido University
Martínez, Paul Hersch
Mexico, Mexico
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico
De Jong, Wil
Unknown Affiliation
Kusters, Koen
Unknown Affiliation
Kutty, M. Govindan
United States
Sylva Cons
López, Citlalli
Unknown Affiliation
Fu, Maoyi
China, Beijing
Chinese Academy of Forestry
Alfaro, Miguel Angel Martínez
Mexico, Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Nair, T. K.Raghavan
United States
Sylva Cons
Ndoye, Ousseynou
Cameroon
Cifor-cameroon
Ocampo, Rafael
Unknown Affiliation
Rai, Nitin
Unknown Affiliation
Ricker, Martin
Mexico, Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Schreckenberg, Kate
United Kingdom, London
Overseas Development Institute
Shackleton, Sheona E.
South Africa, Grahamstown
Rhodes University
Shanley, Patricia
Unknown Affiliation
Sunderland, Terry Ch
Cameroon
African Rattan Research Programme
Youn, Yeo Chang
South Korea, Seoul
Seoul National University
Statistics
Citations: 255
Authors: 30
Affiliations: 18
Identifiers
Doi:
10.5751/ES-00655-090204
ISSN:
17083087
e-ISSN:
17083087