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The Trees and the Bees: Using Enforcement and Income Projects to Protect Forests and Rural Livelihoods Through Spatial Joint Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

H.J. Albers  and
E.J.Z. Robinson
H.J. Albers
Affiliation:
FES, Oregon State University, in Corvallis, Oregon Environment for Development Initiative in Tanzania
E.J.Z. Robinson
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and International Food Policy Research Institute, in Accra, Ghana Environment for Development Initiative in Tanzania
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Abstract

Forest managers in developing countries enforce extraction restrictions to limit forest degradation. In response, villagers may displace some of their extraction to other forests, which generates “leakage” of degradation. Managers also implement poverty alleviation projects to compensate for lost resource access or to induce conservation. We develop a model of spatial joint production of bees and fuelwood that is based on forest-compatible projects such as beekeeping in Thailand, Tanzania, and Mexico. We demonstrate that managers can better determine the amount and pattern of degradation by choosing the location of both enforcement and the forest-based activity.

Keywords

leakagespatialNTFPsforest conservationlivelihoodsforest degradation
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Contributed Papers
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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , December 2011 , pp. 424 - 438
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Copyright © 2011 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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