Changes in income strategies of rural households in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon
This paper presents the results of a comparative study on changes in income at the household level, using two databases generated in the same farm plots: 418 households in 1990 and 658 households in 1999 in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. The off-farm income became the main source of income for migr...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Estatal Amazónica |
| Repositorio: | Revista Amazónica. Ciencia y Tecnología |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs_revista.www.uea.edu.ec:article/43 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uea.edu.ec/index.php/racyt/article/view/43 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cambios en composición de ingresos Pobreza rural Amazonía ecuatoriana Changes in income composition Rural poverty Ecuadorian Amazon |
| Sumario: | This paper presents the results of a comparative study on changes in income at the household level, using two databases generated in the same farm plots: 418 households in 1990 and 658 households in 1999 in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. The off-farm income became the main source of income for migrant settlers in this area, from 25% in 1990 to 43% in 1999, while farm agricultural income decreased from 74% in 1990 to 56% in 1999. However, timber income increased from 0.8% in 1990 to 13.4% of total household income in 1999. In general, the local population experienced a poverty increase represented in absolute terms by the total average household income decreased by USD 396 from 1990 to1999. |
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