Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/56325
Title: The Role of Livelihood Initiatives in Reducing Non-wood Forest Product Reliance in Protected Areas of Southern Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges
Contributor(s): Lobry De Bruyn, Lisa  (author)orcid ; Duong, Thi Minh Phuong (author); Kristiansen, Paul  (author)orcid ; Marshall, Graham R  (author); Wilkes, Janelle  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2022-07-23
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99313-9_10
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/56325
Abstract: 

As an alternative livelihood approach to improve forest conservation and reduce dependency on non-wood forest products (NWFPs), the government of Vietnam has implemented community-based ecotourism (CBE) in the relation to protected area management. One such initiative is the Talai Ecotourism Venture for the ethnic groups living in the buffer zone of the Cat Tien National Park. This study through household survey (n = 150), and key informant interviews (n = 23), identified the impacts of the ecotourism venture on local people's livelihood and explored whether these impacts have reduced economic livelihood reliance on NWFPs, and increased awareness of forest conservation importance. Among households participating in the initiative, their level of NWFP dependency was 66% lower than those households not employed. In addition to the reduced dependency on NWFPs, the beneficiaries of the initiative also taking advantages of other benefits namely higher household income, access to benefit sharing mechanism, and heightened awareness of forest conservation. To scale out these benefits to similar livelihood interventions for forest conservation and community development goals, they need to be implemented equitably, and to attain an understanding of social-cultural norms in the area of the intervention, particularly local institutions, power structures, and differentiation of ethnic groups.

Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Non-Wood Forest Products of Asia: Knowledge, Conservation and Livelihood, p. 221-251
Publisher: Springer
Place of Publication: Cham, Switzerland
ISBN: 9783030993122
9783030993139
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 300707 Forestry management and environment
440404 Political economy and social change
410406 Natural resource management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 230112 Social class and inequalities
190103 Social impacts of climate change and variability
180603 Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
WorldCat record: https://www.worldcat.org/title/1328006007
Series Name: World Forests
Series Number : 25
Editor: Editor(s): A Z M Manzoor Rashid, Niaz Ahmed Khan and Mahmood Hossain
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Environmental and Rural Science

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