Type of study:
Non-experimental research
Type of publication:
Peer-review published journal paper
Mechanism by which biodiversity affects poverty:
Biodiversity component details:
Plants that contain gums and resins
Mechanism details:
Direct use - people extract gum and resins from plants
Measure of poverty impact used:
Average annual cash income per HH
Assessment of impact on poverty:
Evidence assesses the scale of impact:
Sustainability of biodiversity use:
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Does the evidence relate to a specific intervention?:
How does the mechanism affect poverty?:
It supports immediate subsistence needs
It generates income/tradeable surplus
It acts as a safety net
Mechanism affects poverty precisely how:
Supports immediate subsistence - used in local households for sanitation purposes such as to cleanse and disinfect domestic vessels, keep insects away, local plant products also have some medicinal use such as for healing wound or of snake bites. Generates income - about 96.4% of interviewed households were collecting oleo-gum resins to earn cash income. "The oleo-gum-resin-based income was also shown to be three-fold greater than the subsistence generated from crop farming...." (QUOTE CONTINUED BELOW Acts as a safety net - "..As this income is mainly obtained during dry seasons when the households often fall short of subsistence, it plays an essential role in counteracting the high grain prices and falling livestock prices that are a feature of dry seasons in Liban"
Evidence provides measure of poverty impact:
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Research method details:
Aims of the survey method 2 fold- 1) To provide a baseline information on existing potential of oleo-gum resources in the area (studied topographic maps and then carried out transects of the area) 2) assess economic contribution of oloe-gum resins to the economy- 105 households interviewed using a structured questionnaire survey.
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Does the evidence mention the general biodiversity status of the country/region?:
Does the evidence describe the biodiversity status of the site?:
Does the evidence mention the general poverty status of the country/region?:
General poverty status described:
"Hunger is common to pastoralists of the Ethiopian Somali National Regional State (ESNRS) even during normal dry seasons and is due to several factors relating to the weakened conditions of livestock and a scarcity of water and pasture."
Site poverty status described:
"Liban is an area with more favourable pasture, vegetation, and water resources relative to the other parts of ESNRS." Annual HH income - 80 USD is about 30% of total yearly household subsistence
Does the evidence discuss the governance regime at the site?:
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Does the evidence consider possible trade-offs/costs as well as benefits?:
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How costs and benefits/impacts might vary across different spatial scales considered:
Presence of possible confounding factors acknowledged:
