Rain forest dwellers' livelihoods: Income generation, household wealth and NTFP sales, a case study from Xishuangbanna, SW China

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 332-338

  Fu, Yongneng ^a   Chen, Jin ^a   Guo, Huijun ^b   Hu, Huabin ^a   Chen, Aiguo ^a   Cui, Jingyun ^a  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b Forestry Department of Yunnan Province   (China)

Author keywords

Gini coefficient; Household demography; NTFP income; Rubber plantation; Smallholder livelihood

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LABOR MARKET; PUBLIC ACCESS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RAINFOREST; RUBBER; SMALLHOLDER; VEGETABLE;

BAKA; CHINA; DAKA; XISHUANGBANNA; YUNNAN;

FUNGI;

EID: 77951539975     PISSN: 13504509     EISSN: 17452627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504500903198805     Document Type: Article

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