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Markets Drive the Specialization Strategies of Forest Peoples

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dc.contributor.author Ruiz-Pérez, Manuel en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:52:37Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:52:37Z
dc.date.issued 2004 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-12-21 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-12-21 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2682
dc.description.abstract "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." en_US
dc.subject markets en_US
dc.subject indigenous institutions en_US
dc.subject economics en_US
dc.title Markets Drive the Specialization Strategies of Forest Peoples en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 9 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth June en_US


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