¿Quienes recolectan los Productos Forestales No- Maderables? : una aproximación para identificar a individuos recolectores en una comunidad Indígena de la India

Socioeconomic attributes influence to Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) collection. They indicate the different social sectors involved on the gathering and, besides, suggest factors that regulate the NTFPs extraction. Associations between socioeconomic attributes and NTFPs collection would change between NTFPs sale and consumption. Some rural families collect NTFPs to obtain a economic livelihood. Others, often the poorest families, collect NTFPs to obtain subsistence resources. Socioeconomic attributes would help to identify both social sectors. Here, I evaluate the association between socioeconomic attributes with NTFPs sale and consumption on the Soligas, an indigenous community from India. Through a survey were registered the collection of NTFPs and socioeconomic attributes. I made a multiple regression based on Probit model. This model estimates the type of association (positive or negative) and probability that an individual with certain characteristic collecting NTFPs. The results suggest that some variable –such as age, sex, and household size- are good predictors for NTFPs sale and consumption. Besides, the results suggest that some variables differ between sale and consumption. So, the study demonstrates 1) the importance of analyses on association between socioeconomic attributes, and 2) that different social sectors depend on sale and consumption of NTFPs. The information of this study is relevant for programs that found the poor rural families’s livelihood.