Swiddeners’ household strategies for the wild harvest of Rauvolfia serpentina and Amorphophallus bulbifer in a Karen swidden system in the Bago Mountains, Myanmar
Swiddeners’ household strategies for the wild harvest of Rauvolfia serpentina and Amorphophallus bulbifer in a Karen swidden system in the Bago Mountains, Myanmar
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缅甸巴固山区克伦州湿地系统中,湿地人家庭野生采收萝芙木和魔芋的策略
DOI:
10.1007/s12231-019-09450-7
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发表时间:
2019
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影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Shinya Takeda
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作者:
Ei;Yasuyuki Kosaka;Soonthornchareonnon Noppamas;Shinya Takeda
Swiddeners in the Bago Mountains, Myanmar collect two economically important non-timber forest products (NTFPs)—Rauvolfia serpentina(L.) Benth. ex Kurz (Apocynaceae) roots andAmorphophallus bulbifer(Roxb.) Blume (Araceae) corms. We analyzed household strategies for NTFP collection at ST village located on a paved road with direct access to middlemen, and KC village connected to a paved road by 10 km of a non-paved foot path. The number and percentage of harvesters of both species was greater at KC village than at ST village. Males contributed more (79.5%) than females (20.5%) to theR. serpentinaharvest at KC village but not at ST village. Women could collectA. bulbiferwithin the limited time they had available from undertaking household tasks at both villages. The average amount of both species per harvest was higher at KC village than at ST village. The total production amounts ofR. serpentinawere 441.2 kg and 626.6 kg (valued at USD 529.5 and USD 751.9), and those ofA. bulbiferwere 1175.8 kg and 2254.6 kg (USD 117.6 and USD 225.5) per year at ST village and KC village, respectively. The NTFPs provided supplementary income for household members in the pre-harvest season of the swidden livelihood.