Why is it thus interesting to look at environmental incomes in a climate change and poverty perspective?First, for specific mitigation activities such as the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forestDegradation (REDD/REDD+) efforts, the value of current forest uses could help us to quantify theopportunity costs of conservation and sustainable forest uses.3 Second, income quantifications may help usunderstand the scope of coping with and adapting to climate change. The detailed assessment of householdincomes can give us a benchmark for what income flows from crops, livestock, and the environment are atstake in various regions with differential exposure to climate risks. Finally, data on households’ statedresponses to different shock types and degrees can inform projections of responses to climate-inducedfluctuations and shocks in different natural resource-based sectors.This report will not deal with the opportunity costs of REDD, but address the two other issues through tworesearch questions (RQ) on linkages between climate variability and rural livelihoods in developingcountries. After initially presenting our conceptual framework and hypotheses (Section 2), we discuss ourdata sources for livelihoods and climate, respectively (Section 3). Using a big data set (8,000+ households)on rural livelihoods in tropical and subtropical areas, we provide a snapshot of assets, income generationand environmental reliance, and juxtapose those to climate zones and weather variables. In Section 4, wewill address the first research question:RQ1: How much do the rural poor depend on environmental incomes?2
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