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Rural income and forest dependence –some evidence from Guatemala

Explore the dynamics of rural income sources, forest dependence, and poverty in Guatemala's montane conifer forests. Discover how households rely on forest and environmental products for income, uncover seasonal trends, and examine the interplay between forest conservation and agriculture.

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Rural income and forest dependence –some evidence from Guatemala

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  1. Rural income and forest dependence –some evidence from Guatemala Pablo Prado CIFOR, 25th March 2009

  2. Context • Montane conifer forests of Central America • 2567-3600 m a.s.l. • Rain 825±125-1141±260 • Area approx. 1,000 sqkm • 12 villages, 996 hh, sample 271193147 • 7122 inhabitants, 5 persons/hh

  3. Household income sources

  4. Trends by quarter

  5. Seasonality

  6. Key forest and environmental products

  7. Income composition and poverty

  8. Other patterns • Although very few hhs (8.96%) reported to have used forest productos to weather misfortune, they either did nothing (25.93%), spent cash savings (16.67%), received assitance from friends and relatives (16.67%), harvested more forest products (11.11%), harvested more agricultural products (11.11%) or harvested more wild products from the forest (1.85%).

  9. Other patterns cont´d • No evidence of forest products as stepping stones out of poverty, and very weak correlations between closeness to markets and forest income (DFI and DtM, 0.195; and FDI and DtM, -0.080). • Subsistence peasant economies with irregular market articulations by means of agricultural products.

  10. Policies and overall findings • Regular subsistence users • Interdependence between forest conservation and both subsistence and small scale commercial agriculture • Firewood and leaf litter are the centrepiece for the local subsistence strategies • Income assymetrically ditributed

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