In many tropical regions, rural households often depend on forests for cash income, but there is still little knowledge on how forest use strategies differ among people living in different locations. This study aimed to detect differences in forest use strategies and forest cash income dependency between households living outside and inside selectively logged production forests, known as Reserved Forests (RFs), in Bago Township, Myanmar. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 146 and 48 households living outside and inside the RFs, respectively. The inside-households (encroachers) had a much higher forest cash income dependency (83%), with charcoal production as the main forest use activity, than the outside-households (32%), with bamboo cutting as the main activity. Higher forest dependency was found for outside-households that had less farmland, better accessibility to forest and more recognition of prohibited access to RFs in forest law. This study revealed evidence of substantial forest use for commercial purposes in RFs by households living both inside and outside the RFs, despite local recognition of the illegality of the use. Implementing community forestry practices for local communities may be a better option to reduce illegal dependence on selectively logged production forests.

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缅甸选择性采伐生产林木内外的家庭现金收入森林使用策略的差异

在许多热带地区，农村家庭经常依靠森林来获得现金收入，但对居住在不同地区的人们森林使用策略的差异知之甚少。这项研究的目的是发现缅甸巴戈镇有选择采伐的生产林（RF）外和内的家庭在森林使用策略和森林现金收入依赖性方面的差异。分别对146个和48个居住在RF中的家庭进行了问卷调查。内部家庭（侵占者）的森林现金收入依赖性（83％）要比外部家庭（32％）高得多，其中以木炭生产为主要森林利用活动，而砍伐竹子为主要活动。人们发现，对森林较少的农户而言，他们对森林的依赖性更高，这些家庭的耕地更少，森林可及性更高，并且在森林法中更多地认识到禁止使用森林资源。这项研究揭示了证据，尽管当地承认使用非法森林，但居住在区域森林内外的家庭在区域森林中将大量森林用于商业用途。对当地社区实施社区林业实践可能是减少对选择性采伐的生产林的非法依赖的更好选择。