determined by location. Forest cover change therefore becomes a question of changes in rent of forest versus non-forest use … example, a new technology in extensive agriculture should make this land use more profitable and lead to more forest clearing … community forest management. The second part of the paper links the von Thunen framework to the forest transition theory. The …

An emerging body of knowledge has established that poorer households in forest adjacent communities in developing … countries are generally more forest reliant (higher forest income share) while richer households tend to extract more and … generate higher absolute forest income. These studies commonly categorize households based on observed income in cross …

diversification and forest use, and the role of assets in shaping ex post response to shocks. Income-poor households and those with … are associated with greater use of the forest in subsequent periods, especially among asset-poor households. Findings … suggest that development of better safety nets would reduce both vulnerability and forest pressure. …

This paper investigates if and how the establishment of private commercial forest plantations in degraded forest … collected from intervention and control villages in the neighborhood of forest reserves. We find that commercial forest … plantations are weakly effective in conserving natural forests. The reduction in forest use is unevenly distributed across …

Do local people, especially vulnerable households, benefit from devolution of forest management? We apply the … propensity-score matching and decomposition techniques on household data from Chimaliro and Liwonde forest reserves under the … pilot forest co-management program in Malawi. After controlling for selection bias, we find that while the program raises …