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Public Health Effects of Natural Resource Degradation: Evidence from Indonesia

Garg, Teevrat - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

. Using village-level panel data and satellite data on forest cover, I find that the average within-sample deforestation … response and the effect of deforestation on malaria cannot be explained by post-deforestation land use change, anti …-malarial programs or migration. The effect is specific to malaria, with deforestation having no discernible effect on other diseases …

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Protected Areas' Impacts Upon Land Cover Within Mexico: the need to add politics and dynamics to static land-use economics

Pfaff, Alexander; Santiago-Avila, Francisco; Carnovale, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Incentives for REDD − i.e., reductions in emissions from deforestation and degradation − motivate application of static …

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Conserving Forests: Mandates, Management or Money?

Baylis, Katherine R.; Honey‐Roses, Jordi; Ramirez, M. … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

Mexico, we compare the effectiveness of three conservation instruments in limiting deforestation and forest degradation … a spatial lag model of deforestation, we find that for preserving forest, PES is the most effective. Protected area …

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DEFORESTATION AND ASSET ACCUMULATION AMONG SMALL SCALE FARMERS

Takasaki, Yoshito - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2000

This paper explores deforestation and asset accumulation among small scale farmers in tropical forests. In a two … accumulation options may or may not change the impacts of policy measures on deforestation, depending on labor market conditions …

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Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Implications of Biofuels: Role of Technology and Policy

Chen, Xiaoguang; Huang, Haixiao; Khanna, Madhu - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

This paper examines the extensive and intensive margin changes in land use in the U.S. likely to be induced by biofuel policies and the implications of these policies for GHG emissions over the 2007-2022 period. The policies considered here include the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by itself as...

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The Trade-off Between Bioenergy and Emissions When Land Is Scarce

Kauffman, Nathan S.; Hayes, Dermot J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Agricultural biofuels require the use of scarce land, and this land has opportunity cost. We explore the objective function of a social planner who includes a land constraint in the optimization decision to minimize environmental cost. The results show that emissions should be measured on a per...

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The Global Supply and Demand for Agricultural Land in 2050: A Perfect Storm in the Making?

Hertel, Thomas W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

2010 AAEA Presidential Address; forthcoming in January 2011 AJAE in shortened version.

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Spatial Equilibrium in the Bio-Fuel Economy: A Multi-Market Analysis of Trade Distortions in the U.S. and Brazilian Ethanol Sector

Bowser, William; Khanna, Madhu; Onal, Hayri - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Replaced with revised version of paper 08/04/10.

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Estimating the Implicit Value of Crop Stubble as a Barrier to Technology Adoption in Morocco

Magnan, Nicholas; Larson, Douglas M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

For mixed cereal-livestock farmers, cereal production provides a bundle of goods. Grain is consumed by the household or sold at market, and crop residues are used as livestock feed. The straw component of crop residue can be bought and sold at market and therefore has a well-established local...

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Farmland Allocation along the Rural-Urban Gradient: The Impacts of Urbanization and Urban Sprawl

Delbecq, Benoit A.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

In the vicinity of a city, farmers are confronted with increasing agricultural land prices and rents along the rural-urban gradient, but they concurrently enjoy the advantages associated with proximity to a larger and wealthier consumer base. We hypothesize that farmers transition from...

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