Relevant Literature

Overview papers

• Sunderlin et al. (2003), in a Chapter on Forests and Poverty in FAO’s “State of the World’s Forests 2003” report, present a brief synopsis of the key issues in the debate.
  Download the PDF (296KB) from FAO site.

• Kaimowitz (2002) provides an overview and discussion of the forest benefits to rural livelihoods in Africa.
  Download PDF, 379KB

• Wunder (2001): 'Poverty alleviation and tropical forests - what scope for synergies?', discusses the poverty reduction potentials to natural forests and their products but also deals with the reverse link, from poverty to forest condition. 
  See the review in POLEX

• Byron and Arnold (1999): What Futures for the People of the Tropical Forests?, disaggregates the term ‘forest-dependent people’ into more functional socioeconomic sub-groups, and provide important insights.
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