کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5074134 1477139 2013 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
To process or not to process? Factors enabling and constraining shea butter production and income in Burkina Faso
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
برای پردازش یا فرآیند؟ عوامل موثر بر تولید و درآمد کره شیا در بورکینافاسو
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
Processing of environmental products by rural households in developing countries is often considered a way to lift poor natural resource-dependent households out of poverty by increasing the returns to labour of their harvesting activities. Still, the bulk of environmental products in developing countries is commercialised unprocessed. This paper examines the factors enabling and constraining the processing of shea nuts into shea butter in Burkina Faso. Our analysis is based on socio-economic survey data collected from 536 households in the Zoundwéogo and Cascades provinces of Burkina Faso, as well as qualitative interview data collected from 74 shea butter producers in the province of Sissili. The factors affecting the selection of shea butter production as a livelihood activity as well as the economic success of this activity are analysed using a Heckman selection model. Moreover, we study the effect of locality of residence, defined as place of residence along the rural-urban continuum, on shea butter processing and income. We demonstrate that, among members of a shea butter producer Union, women living in urban areas produce significantly larger quantities of shea butter for sale to the Union and earn superior revenues from these sales than their rural counterparts. We relate these urban-rural discrepancies to the physical and socio-economic conditions that characterise life in different localities and propose policy recommendations based on our findings.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Geoforum - Volume 50, December 2013, Pages 211-220
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