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标题：Company–Community Logging Contracts in Amazonian Settlements: Impacts on Livelihoods and NTFP Harvests
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作者：Mary C. S. Menton ; Frank D Merry ; Anna Lawrence 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2009
卷号：14
期号：1
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：As a result of government-sponsored colonization, more than 500 000 km2of the BrazilianAmazon is managed by settlement households. By law, 80% of this land must remain as standing forest.In this study, we examine the potential for timber harvesting through company–community partnerships(CCPs) as a means to increase forest-based revenue without compromising household use of non-timberforest products (NTFPs). Using participatory rural appraisal, resource diaries, and household questionnaires,we study the impacts of CCP logging contracts on livelihoods, including household income and NTFPharvests. Our results show that annual household income from the CCP logging is equivalent to more than8 years of household gross income from agricultural production. We also found that there were no significantdifferences in NTFP harvests between households with CCP logging and those without. In CCP-loggingcommunities, households caught 11.9 ± 13.6 game animals, totaling 74 ± 88 kg of game meat. In thecommunities without CCP, households caught 9.5 ± 13.0 game animals, totaling 73 ± 172 kg of game meat.Annual forest fruit harvests averaged 9.8 ± 13.2 kg in CCP-logging communities and 13.5 ± 15.9 kg innon-CCP communities. Overall, the CCPs brought improvements in household income withoutcompromising NTFP harvests
关键词：Amazonian frontier; non-timber forest products; rural livelihoods; sustainable forest;management