Forests and poverty

How has our understanding of the relationship been changed by experience

Bibliographic Data

ID21719993
AuthorsGill Shepherd, K Warner (0000-0001-7483-5420), Kim Ashburn and Ann Warner, Nicholas J Hogarth (0000-0003-0954-5982), N Hogarth
Year2020
Volume22
Issue1
Pages29-43
Publication date2020-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Forestry Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-5489 • E-ISSN: 2053-7778
PublisherCommonwealth Forestry Association (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1505/146554820829523907
OpenAlexW3037426760
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Understanding of the relationship between forests and the poor has grown enormously, especially in the last twenty years. Aid donors worked on poverty reduction in the forest sector in the 1990s and into the early 2000s, but thereafter broadened their attention to address climate change mitigation, better forest governance and timber legality, and payments for environmental services. There has so far been an incomplete integration of new insights into the nature of poor people's reliance on forests, of their own efforts to use that reliance to escape from poverty, and of current forestry aid concerns. Future projects need to choose interventions which make better use of the results now available about forestpoverty relationships, both for the better conservation of forests, and for better focus on the livelihoods of the forest-reliant poor as they continue to try to move out of poverty

Agriculture · Business · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Ecosystem · Ecosystem services · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Livelihood · Natural resource economics · Payment · Political science · Poverty · Poverty reduction · Principle of legality · Psychological intervention · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Forest Management and Policy · Psychology · Ecology · Finance

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