1. PEN partner mini-presentations PEN workshop, Bogor, March 26 2009
Abebe Seifu (30202)
Welcome to my

2. Location of the study area
The study was conducted in Arsi Forest Industry, AN Woreda/district, ORS, Ethiopia
Six villages adjacent to the forest were selected, 4 them in the Hl, the rest in the Ll

3. Characteristics of the study area
Value
MARF mm
Temp.
20-25 degree centigrade
Alt.
masl
Forest zone
WL, Plantation, AMF
Area
140 square km
# villages 6
# people
8544
# HH
230
Average # of HH
6.8

4. Household income sources
Total
Cash
Subsistence DF
(22)
(78) FD
(12)
(88)
Fish
(35)
(65)
NFE I
(100)
Aquacult
Crop
(33)
(67) LS
(16)
(84)
PFS
Other
Wage
Business
HIS are mainly subsistence

5. HH Income shares by main categories
FI contribution is 26% ; it is almost a third of Agriculture (62%)

6. Income sources and seasonality
Except for Q3 (crop harvesting period Nov. Decemb, Jan), FI exceeds AI in all other Qs

7. Key forest products & env’tal incomeNI
NI % CI
CI % SI
SI %
DFI FW
71.72
21.46
78.54
pole
11.48
71.05
5329
28.95
FDI WF
6617
54.79
615
9.29
6002
90.71
OWT/U
4443
36.79
333.3
7.5
4109.7
92.5
Fish
2768.5
100
1172.5
42.35
1596
57.65 EI
Fodder
6815.5
77.37 3
.04
6812.5
99.96 TG
1477
16.77
FPI categories that provide more than 10% include
Own reported use was used to estmate subsistence fprest/env’tal goods

8. Income composition and poverty
Quintiles FI AI
RI % 1
196.80
544.37 36 2
223.47
872.62 25 3
311.88 26 4
362.53 20 5
753.84 21
We have seen the average contribution FI was 26%
This varies across quintiles
For the first quintile and the poorest 36%
It drops to 20% for the better of, the 4th and 5th quintiles

9. Other patterns 17% of HHs report using forests to weather misfortune
Sell of assets is the most common alternative to mitigate shock
Not yet done
Closeness to road and market has little or no effect
No further analysis have been done. The study is still data cleaning phase.

10. Policies and overall findings
Forest income have an important income equalizing potential among the studied HH
Restricting HH’s access to forest income can have a diferential effect on their LH and welfare
The overall finding suggest that
An important policy lesson is that

11. Revisiting the HH income share
Source
Guess
Finding
Forest 12
24.8
???
Fishing & Aqu.
0.1
0.6
NFEI
1.4
Wage 1
5.4
Business
2.4
Agriculture-crop 65
43.3
Agriculture-LS 20
18.9
Other
0.3
2.3
Forest derived NA
0.9
Total
100
What i have assumed before my field work
What I have found out after the field work

12. PEN partner mini-presentations
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