Title
Measuring forest and wild product contributions to household welfare: Testing a scalable household survey instrument in Indonesia
Date Issued
01 November 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Center for International Forestry Research
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Systematic comparisons of human dependence on forests and environmental resources have been challenging, as a result of heterogeneous methodologies. Specialized Forestry Modules have been developed, with the goal of filling current information gaps concerning the economic importance of forest and wild products in household welfare and rural livelihoods. Results from a pilot assessment of the Forestry Modules in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, are presented, showing that the Forestry Modules perform well in extracting the expected information: mean per capita forest and wild product income shifts according to the geographical “forest gradient”. Significantly, in the forest-rich upstream village, mean forest and wild product income and mean forest-related wage and business incomes exceeds current mean agricultural income statistics for West Kalimantan and mean non-agricultural rural household incomes in the lowest bracket. Consumption of forest products and importance as a coping strategy was higher in the most upstream village, where sale of forest products in times of shock was more marked in the most downstream village (where forest coping strategies were also least important). The Forestry Modules' detailed and systematic approach can help ensure that contributions of forest and wild products are not underestimated in national figures.
Start page
20
End page
28
Volume
84
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía
Forestal
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85001955855
Source
Forest Policy and Economics
ISSN of the container
13899341
Sponsor(s)
The field-work, analysis and write up of this report were supported by the Center for International Forestry Research ( CIFOR ) as part of the Poverty and Environment Network (PEN) project, using funds from the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) KNOWFOR Programme. The development of the Forestry Modules was coordinated by FAO, specifically Illias Animon under the overall guidance of Eva Muller, Director, and Senior Forestry Officers Thaís Linhares-Juvenal and Ewald Rametsteiner of the FAO Forestry Policy and Resources Division. The authors would like to acknowledge other (current and former) co-members in the Steering Group for their guidance: FAO - David Morales, Anssi Pekkarinen and Adrian Whiteman, IFRI - Arun Agrawal, Heather McGee, Pete Newton and Lauren Persha, University of Copenhagen - Carsten Smith-Hall and Thorsten Treue, and World Bank - Gero Carletto and Alberto Zezza (Living Standards Measurement Study) and Daniel Miller (Program on Forests). We would like to express our gratitude to the provincial, district and sub-district forestry officials, to the leaders of the sample villages, and all the households in the villages who so kindly hosted us in their homes, and willingly cooperated in their participation of the surveys.
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