Not just minor forest products: The economic rationale for the consumption of wild food plants by subsistence farmers
Not just minor forest products: The economic rationale for the consumption of wild food plants by subsistence farmers
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.10.006
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发表时间：
2006-08-05
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7
通讯作者：
Delang, Claudio O.
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作者：
Delang, Claudio O.
非木材森林产品对采集和消费这些产品的家庭的生计作出了重要贡献。特别是，非木材森林产品的消费使采集者能够用比他们必须在市场上购买他们可以从森林中免费获得的东西更少的现金生活。了解非市场化非木材森林产品的经济价值有助于确定采集者的真实收入，以及如果他们不能再采集非木材森林产品，他们将需要多少额外的现金。它还有助于确定现有森林的真正价值，从而就其替代用途作出更合理的决定。然而，在估计非木材森林产品对农村人口的经济重要性时，往往忽略了没有销售的非木材森林产品。本文简要介绍了非市售野生食用植物价值的五种评估方法。然后，它比较了这些方法中的两个与一个月的实地调查的数据在两个Pwo卡伦村在Thung Yai Naresuan野生动物保护区在泰国西部。这篇文章的结论是，野生食用植物仍然是商业粮食作物的首选替代品，因为收集野生食用植物比参与市场经济购买商业粮食作物更有效地利用时间。(c)2005 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPS) make an important contribution to the livelihood of the households who gather and consume them. in particular, the consumption of NTFPs allows gatherers to live with lower amounts of cash than if they had to buy in the market what they can obtain from the forest for free. Understanding the economic value of non-marketed NTFPs helps determine the true income of the gatherers, and the amount of extra cash that they would need if they could no longer gather NTFPs. It also helps ascertain the true value of the standing forest, leading to more rational decisions about its alternative uses. Yet, the NTFPs that are not marketed are often ignored when estimates are made of the economic importance of NTFPs to rural populations. This article briefly describes five methods for estimating the value of non-marketed wild edible plants. It then compares two of these methods with data from one month of fieldwork in two Pwo Karen villages in Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in western Thailand. The article concludes that wild food plants remain a preferred alternative to commercial food crops because gathering wild food plants is a much more efficient use of time than engaging in the market economy in order to purchase commercial food crops. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.