Forest products monetary contribution to households' income: A means to improve the livelihood of a low-income rural community in South Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Forest products and forest-based activities in Ethiopia play a substantial economic contribution to the livelihoods of rural households. Despite its pivotal role, empirical data are inadequate on forests' monetary contribution across a range of ecological locations and social situation, particularly for rural agrarian communities of the developing nations, like Ethiopia. We estimated the economic contributions of forest products and forest-based activities to forest-dependent rural households' income and highlighted key socioeconomic characteristics in Wolaita, Ethiopia. We collected demographic, socioeconomic, and forest use data using a semi-structured questionnaire survey of 384 households, and surveyed markets to determine the prices of forest products for the valuation of forest use i

SUBMITTER: Chama E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10660557 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature