Abstract
Natural forests and their biodiversity have a high importance for the worldwide ecosystem goods and services for the support of livelihoods. Despite the great actual and potential socio-economic and ecological benefits derived from the forest resources in Ethiopia, PFM can sustain the natural resource and the livelihoods at once. FM stakeholders supposed to enjoy some benefits in terms of household opportunities to meet their basic needs. However the government devoted limited right as community does not supposed to make any decision about forest, not enjoying high value benefits and the voice of participants in terms of what to generate from the forest is dictated by experts. This study intended to examine the effect of PFM on local community livelihood. Exploratory and descriptive research methods were applied in selected areas and the roles of Participatory forest management contribution to local livelihood explored. Semi-structured questionnaire, key informant interview and focus group discussion were used for the purpose of socio economic study. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from 304 household and one focus group discussion and key informant interview(KII) consisting 12 and 8 members respectively.The collected of livelho‑od contribution of PFM was analyzed using Microsoft excel software and SPSS 20version.The used Paired-t-test and chi-square test analysis of the incomes derived from different forest products before and after PFM as well as between members and non members of PFM revealed a significant difference (p<0.05).Generally the study showed PFM have slightly contributed to the livelihoods of the forest adjacent community. From study result concepts Introduction of improved sheep breeds, Organizing or strengthen saving and credit scheme, use of improved plant and animal varieties of locally adaptable and Promotion of agroforestry and plantations in homesteads was recommended. Keywords: Forest Status, Effect, Livelihood and Participatory Forest Management DOI: 10.7176/JRDM/72-01 Publication date: January 31 st 2021
Highlights
Natural forests and their biodiversity have a high importance for the worldwide eco-systems in offering the rural poor with manifold ecosystem goods and services for the support of livelihoods
Participatory forest management approach have in common the involvement of people who live in and around the forest in the management decisions that affect forest use and conservation (Gobeze, et al, 2009).Involving local community into forest management as primary stakeholders supposed to enjoy some benefits in terms of household level opportunities to meet their basic needs, the government devoted limited right as the community does not supposed to make any decision about forest and not enjoying high value benefits instead they are supposed to benefit lower value
In order to assess the effect of provided before the existing management regime (PFM) on livelihoods of local communities surrounding selected forest reserve, chi-square test and t-test at 5% level of significance, was used to show mean income difference between users and non-users, before and after PFM to test if there is a significant change on livelihoods of the communities as affected by the approach from their respective year of PFM implementation to 2018 for forest user groups (FUGs) members and non-members
Summary
Natural forests and their biodiversity have a high importance for the worldwide eco-systems in offering the rural poor with manifold ecosystem goods and services for the support of livelihoods. In addition the evaluation of the PFM situations of the livelihood explored and described in comparatively with before and after PFM and between members and non-members of PFM .before and after PFM of in three forest villages members and their livelihood status with very nearby non-members of PFM were identified .purposive sampling design employed in selecting survey sites in case of focus group discussion to allowed a variety of topics of the before and after PFM issues Another requirement of the site selection were village pair in the same agro-ecological zone, similar in their livelihood and socio-economic patterns in order to minimize the other factors besides the forest management regime that could influence the comparison in selected study sites, 2.3 Sample Size Determination The social survey and users of these forests was identified by collecting list of households from their respective Kebele administration office. Published and unpublished literatures of the previous reports, studies were used as sources of data
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