Cambios en las estrategias de ingresos económicos a nivel de hogares rurales en el norte de la Amazonía ecuatoriana

Segundo Bolier Torres Navarrete; Richard E. Bilsborrow; Alisson Barbieri; Rumania Alexandra Torres Navarrete

doi:10.59410/RACYT-v03n03ep03-0043

Authors

Bolier Torres Navarrete Universidad Estatal Amazónica https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9182-419X
Richard E. Bilsborrow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alisson Barbieri CEDEPLAR
Alexandra Torres Navarrete Universidad Estatal Amazónica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59410/RACYT-v03n03ep03-0043

Keywords:

Changes in income composition, Rural poverty, Ecuadorian Amazon

Abstract

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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