Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi

In this paper, the authors seek to answer three questions about poverty and forests in Malawi: (1) What is the extent of biomass available for meeting the energy needs of the poor in Malawi and how is this distributed? (2) To what extent does fuelwood scarcity affect the welfare of the poor? (3) How...

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Main Authors:	Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit, Shyamsundar, Priya, Baccini, Alessandro
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION AGRICULTURAL LABOR AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ALTERNATIVE METHODS AMOUNT OF BIOMASS AMOUNT OF LAND BIOMASS BIOMASS AVAILABILITY BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION BIOMASS USE BURNING BUSH MEAT CANOPY CAPITA CONSUMPTION CHARCOAL CHARCOAL PRODUCTION CHRONIC ILLNESS COLLECTED DATA CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY COOKING CULTIVATION DEAD WOOD DEFORESTATION DETERMINANT DETERMINANTS DRY SEASON ENERGY DEMAND ENERGY RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION EQUILIBRIUM EVERGREEN FOREST EVERGREEN FORESTS FAO FARMERS FIRE MANAGEMENT FISHER FOREST FOREST AREA FOREST BIOMASS FOREST CANOPIES FOREST CANOPY FOREST COVER FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST HEALTH FOREST PRODUCTS FOREST RESOURCES FOREST STRUCTURE FORESTRY FORESTS FUEL FUEL WOOD FUELS FUELWOOD GAS STOVE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GRASSES GROWING SEASON HARVESTING IFPRI INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ISSUES KEROSENE LABOR DEMAND LABOR FORCE LAND COVER LANDSCAPE MAIZE MEAT NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NATURE PLANT POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION GROWTH RAINY SEASON REMOTE SENSING REMOTE SENSING DATA RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SATELLITE DATA SPACING TIMBER TOBACCO TREE TREE DENSITY TREES URBAN CENTERS USE OF BIOMASS VEGETATION VILLAGES WET SEASON WOOD WOOD USE WOODLAND YIELDS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/11/7196463/forests-biomass-use-poverty-malawi http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8867

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spelling	okr-10986-88672021-04-23T14:02:41Z Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit Shyamsundar, Priya Baccini, Alessandro AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION AGRICULTURAL LABOR AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ALTERNATIVE METHODS AMOUNT OF BIOMASS AMOUNT OF LAND BIOMASS BIOMASS AVAILABILITY BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION BIOMASS USE BURNING BUSH MEAT CANOPY CAPITA CONSUMPTION CHARCOAL CHARCOAL PRODUCTION CHRONIC ILLNESS COLLECTED DATA CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY COOKING CULTIVATION DEAD WOOD DEFORESTATION DETERMINANT DETERMINANTS DRY SEASON ENERGY DEMAND ENERGY RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION EQUILIBRIUM EVERGREEN FOREST EVERGREEN FORESTS FAO FARMERS FIRE MANAGEMENT FISHER FOREST FOREST AREA FOREST BIOMASS FOREST CANOPIES FOREST CANOPY FOREST COVER FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST HEALTH FOREST PRODUCTS FOREST RESOURCES FOREST STRUCTURE FORESTRY FORESTS FUEL FUEL WOOD FUELS FUELWOOD GAS STOVE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GRASSES GROWING SEASON HARVESTING IFPRI INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ISSUES KEROSENE LABOR DEMAND LABOR FORCE LAND COVER LANDSCAPE MAIZE MEAT NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NATURE PLANT POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION GROWTH RAINY SEASON REMOTE SENSING REMOTE SENSING DATA RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SATELLITE DATA SPACING TIMBER TOBACCO TREE TREE DENSITY TREES URBAN CENTERS USE OF BIOMASS VEGETATION VILLAGES WET SEASON WOOD WOOD USE WOODLAND YIELDS In this paper, the authors seek to answer three questions about poverty and forests in Malawi: (1) What is the extent of biomass available for meeting the energy needs of the poor in Malawi and how is this distributed? (2) To what extent does fuelwood scarcity affect the welfare of the poor? (3) How do households cope with scarcity? In particular, do households spend more time in fuelwood collection and less time in agriculture in response to scarcity? The authors attempt to answer these questions using household and remote-sensing data. They find that 80 percent of rural poor households in Malawi are likely to benefit from an increase in biomass per hectare in their community. Rural women respond to biomass scarcity by increasing the time they spend on fuelwood collection. But the actual decrease in consumption expenditure and increase in time in fuelwood collection are small and biomass scarcity is not associated with a reduction in agricultural labor supply. 2012-06-22T20:37:03Z 2012-06-22T20:37:03Z 2006-11-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/11/7196463/forests-biomass-use-poverty-malawi http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8867 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4068 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Malawi
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topic	AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION AGRICULTURAL LABOR AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ALTERNATIVE METHODS AMOUNT OF BIOMASS AMOUNT OF LAND BIOMASS BIOMASS AVAILABILITY BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION BIOMASS USE BURNING BUSH MEAT CANOPY CAPITA CONSUMPTION CHARCOAL CHARCOAL PRODUCTION CHRONIC ILLNESS COLLECTED DATA CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY COOKING CULTIVATION DEAD WOOD DEFORESTATION DETERMINANT DETERMINANTS DRY SEASON ENERGY DEMAND ENERGY RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION EQUILIBRIUM EVERGREEN FOREST EVERGREEN FORESTS FAO FARMERS FIRE MANAGEMENT FISHER FOREST FOREST AREA FOREST BIOMASS FOREST CANOPIES FOREST CANOPY FOREST COVER FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST HEALTH FOREST PRODUCTS FOREST RESOURCES FOREST STRUCTURE FORESTRY FORESTS FUEL FUEL WOOD FUELS FUELWOOD GAS STOVE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GRASSES GROWING SEASON HARVESTING IFPRI INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ISSUES KEROSENE LABOR DEMAND LABOR FORCE LAND COVER LANDSCAPE MAIZE MEAT NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NATURE PLANT POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION GROWTH RAINY SEASON REMOTE SENSING REMOTE SENSING DATA RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SATELLITE DATA SPACING TIMBER TOBACCO TREE TREE DENSITY TREES URBAN CENTERS USE OF BIOMASS VEGETATION VILLAGES WET SEASON WOOD WOOD USE WOODLAND YIELDS
spellingShingle	AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION AGRICULTURAL LABOR AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ALTERNATIVE METHODS AMOUNT OF BIOMASS AMOUNT OF LAND BIOMASS BIOMASS AVAILABILITY BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION BIOMASS USE BURNING BUSH MEAT CANOPY CAPITA CONSUMPTION CHARCOAL CHARCOAL PRODUCTION CHRONIC ILLNESS COLLECTED DATA CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY COOKING CULTIVATION DEAD WOOD DEFORESTATION DETERMINANT DETERMINANTS DRY SEASON ENERGY DEMAND ENERGY RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION EQUILIBRIUM EVERGREEN FOREST EVERGREEN FORESTS FAO FARMERS FIRE MANAGEMENT FISHER FOREST FOREST AREA FOREST BIOMASS FOREST CANOPIES FOREST CANOPY FOREST COVER FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST HEALTH FOREST PRODUCTS FOREST RESOURCES FOREST STRUCTURE FORESTRY FORESTS FUEL FUEL WOOD FUELS FUELWOOD GAS STOVE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GRASSES GROWING SEASON HARVESTING IFPRI INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ISSUES KEROSENE LABOR DEMAND LABOR FORCE LAND COVER LANDSCAPE MAIZE MEAT NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NATURE PLANT POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION GROWTH RAINY SEASON REMOTE SENSING REMOTE SENSING DATA RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SATELLITE DATA SPACING TIMBER TOBACCO TREE TREE DENSITY TREES URBAN CENTERS USE OF BIOMASS VEGETATION VILLAGES WET SEASON WOOD WOOD USE WOODLAND YIELDS Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit Shyamsundar, Priya Baccini, Alessandro Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi
geographic_facet	Africa Malawi
relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4068
description	In this paper, the authors seek to answer three questions about poverty and forests in Malawi: (1) What is the extent of biomass available for meeting the energy needs of the poor in Malawi and how is this distributed? (2) To what extent does fuelwood scarcity affect the welfare of the poor? (3) How do households cope with scarcity? In particular, do households spend more time in fuelwood collection and less time in agriculture in response to scarcity? The authors attempt to answer these questions using household and remote-sensing data. They find that 80 percent of rural poor households in Malawi are likely to benefit from an increase in biomass per hectare in their community. Rural women respond to biomass scarcity by increasing the time they spend on fuelwood collection. But the actual decrease in consumption expenditure and increase in time in fuelwood collection are small and biomass scarcity is not associated with a reduction in agricultural labor supply.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit Shyamsundar, Priya Baccini, Alessandro
author_facet	Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit Shyamsundar, Priya Baccini, Alessandro
author_sort	Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit
title	Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi
title_short	Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi
title_full	Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi
title_fullStr	Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi
title_full_unstemmed	Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi
title_sort	forests, biomass use and poverty in malawi
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/11/7196463/forests-biomass-use-poverty-malawi http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8867
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Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi

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