Policies to reconcile forest conservation and rural development: A pathway to bridge the forest transition in Bhutan?

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 105647
Author(s):  
Arndt Feuerbacher ◽  
Arun Rai ◽  
Hans Lofgren ◽  
Klas Sander ◽  
Harald Grethe
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Forest Transition

scholarly journals Forest Dependence among Rural Households in Southern Ghana: Implications for Conservation and Poverty Reduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Philip Prince Kwasi Mantey ◽  
Joseph Kofi Teye
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Forest Communities ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Southern Ghana

While it is widely acknowledged that an understanding of the determinants of rural households’ forest extraction and dependence on forest resources is important for policies on forest conservation and rural development, the factors that determine Ghanaian households’ dependence on forests are neither adequately explored nor well-understood.  Against this background, this paper examines the extraction and dependence on forest resources among rural households in the forest communities of Southern Ghana. Data were collected through a household livelihood survey and in-depth interviews in two forest communities. Regression models were then used to investigate key factors that condition the households' dependence on forests in the study communities. The findings indicate that almost all households are engaged in forest extraction. The average overall contribution of forests to household income in the study communities was 21 percent and constituted the third largest contributor to household income following crop income and non-farm income. The findings also indicate that forests also play an essential safety net role in the face of unforeseen income shortfalls and ultimately, in poverty alleviation. The results further reveal that the rural household's extraction of forest resources and consequently its dependence on forests (livelihood strategy) are a function of its access to other livelihood assets, its vulnerability context as well as other context variables. Recommended policy interventions for forest conservation and sustainable rural development include securing the natural resource base, broadening poor people's livelihood options and improving access to education in rural communities.

The deforestation-income relationship: evidence of deforestation convergence across developing countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Boka Stéphane Kévin Assa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Forest Transition ◽  
Forest Cover Change ◽  
Recent Method ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Beta Convergence

Abstract The importance of forest conservation in the fight against emissions from deforestation and forest degradation has led to reexamination of the deforestation and economic development relationship. For this purpose, we use the recent method of long-term growth rate developed by Stern et al. (2017) on 85 tropical developing countries over the period 1990–2010. Results show that the EKC is not significant. However, we find a beta convergence across developing countries in terms of deforestation per capita. In other words, these countries converge in terms of policies that prevent deforestation and forest degradation. This implies that, just as with growth effects, beta convergence effects are also important in explaining changes in forest cover in tropical developing countries. The convergence effect in forest cover change may be consistent with the forest transition hypothesis.

Forest conservation

1911 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. T. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Forest Conservation
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