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SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES
卷 17, 期 1, 页码 39-56出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/08941920490247245
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conservation and development; Honduras; Latin America; natural insurance; rain forest products; risk and vulnerability; Tawahka
The rural poor are known to turn to tropical forest resources in times of need. But what explains differential use of this natural insurance'' policy among households? Drawing from a 1998 survey of 116 indigenous households in Honduras, this article shows that households sell forest products to pay for crop shortfalls and illness, but that loans from kin are a more common way to weather calamity. Young households with few liquidatable assets and little land are the most likely to sell forest products to self-insure. Development policies that build on the natural insurance'' concept should anticipate major variation within target populations; meanwhile, conservationists should recognize that the lack of formal safety nets in rural communities will motivate the sale of forest products.
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