Nonfarm employment in small-scale forest-based enterprises: policy and environmental issues.

摘要: Employment and income from non-farm activities are of increasing importance in the rural economy developing countries. Small forest-based enterprise constitute one largest sources such income. They also account for a large part total harvest forests many areas. Many agriculturalists supplement their through gathering trading products as forest foods, medicinal plants, fuel wood. Small-scale manufacturing items furniture, baskets, mats, craft goods substantial informal sector industries. Income these tends to be particularly important during seasonal shortfalls food cash crop periods drought or other emergencies. Ease access raw materials means that poor women. However, some simpler provide very low returns labor, may thus only minimal short-lived livelihood contributions. Some most saleable face uncertain markets because growing competition industrial synthetic alternatives domesticated materials. As demand grows, threatened by depletion of, reduced to, resources. In policies support sustainable activities, it is therefore able distinguish between those have potential grow do not. Policy issues include regulations discriminate against sector, result shift managed uncontrolled open use resources, restrictions on private production sale impede development farm-based products.