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Socio-Economic Baseline for the REDD+ Project Sites in Southern Leyte

Armenia P. T. et. al. .(2012). Socio-Economic Baseline for the REDD+ Project Sites in Southern Leyte. Quezon City : Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. 

 

The study which included 797 randomly chosen household respondents in the five pilot REDD+ sites in Southern Leyte was conducted to establish a socioeconomic baseline to describe the pre-project socio-economic conditions at the REDD+ pilot project sites and Non-REDD+ sites or control sites. The survey was conducted from May 11, 2011 to June 29, 2011 in 71 REDD+ pilot barangays and 21 Non-REDD+ barangays in Bontoc, Sogod, Tomas Oppus, Silago, and Maasin City, Southern Leyte. Of the wide ranging data and information collected from the 200 Non-REDD+ and 597 REDD+ sample farm-households included in the project sites, among others, the important results that are considered relevant or identified to have possible consequence to the REDD+ project implementation are the following:

  • POPULATION GROWTH AND MIGRATION
  • LOW EDUCATION
  • PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND HOUSEHOLD DECISION MAKING
  • USE OF FUEL WOOD FOR COOKING
  • SOURCES AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION
  • HOUSEHOLD INCOME
  • HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES
  • MODE OF LAND ACQUISITION
  • REASONS FOR LANDS NOT BEING TITLED
  • REASONS FOR NOT PLANTING PERENNIAL CROPS
  • REASONS FOR NOT CULTIVATING THE LAND
  • HOUSEHOLDS WHO LOST LAND DUE TO LACK OF PROOF OF OWNERSHIP
  • PARTICIPATION IN ENVIRONMENT ACTIVITIES
  • ACCESS TO NATURAL RESOURCES
  • TIMBER HARVESTING
  • AWARENESS ON RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH DEFORESTATION
  • PERCEIVED REASONS FOR DEFORESTATION
  • AWARENESS ON RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

 
 

Author: 
Pedro T. Armenia, Ma. Salome B. Bulayog, Teofanes R. Patindol, Moises Neil V. Serino, Nelfa M. Glova
Subject: 
Climate change -- Sociological and economic aspects
File: 
PDF icon Socio-Economic Baseline for the REDD+ Project Sites in Southern Leyte.pdf
Physical Location: 
CD REDD+ 2013 kp
Project Title: 
Modernization of Forest Policy and Piloting of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Project
Publication Type: 
Research/Studies