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Table 2 Contributions of TDFs to household income, examples from selected case studies

From: Tropical dry forest dynamics in the context of climate change: syntheses of drivers, gaps, and management perspectives

Country

Contributions of dry forest products to household income

Sources

Botswana

20%

Chipeta and Kowero (2004)

Ethiopia

20–63%

Abtew et al. (2014); Lemenih et al. (2003), Yemiru et al. (2010); Worku et al. (2014), Ermias et al. (2014)

India

> 50%

Belcher et al. (2015)

Malawi

40%

Fisher (2004)

Nigeria

20–60%

Suleiman et al. (2017)

South Africa

19–95%

Clarke et al. (1996); Campbell et al. (2004); Dovie (2004); Shackleton and Gumbo (2010)

South Sudan

20–65%

WFP (World Food Programme) (2013); Adams et al. (2014)

Tanzania

70%

Makonda and Gillah (2007)

Zimbabwe

15–20%

Cavendish (2000)

Zambia

21%

Jumbe et al. (2008)