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Do emerging land markets promote forestland appropriation? Evidence from Indonesia
Krishna, Vijesh V.; Pascual, Unai; Qaim, Matin - 2014
This paper empirically examines the emergence and functioning of land markets and their impacts on deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. While the evolution of land markets is expected to promote deforestation activities by rural households, we find no sizeable impact, due to two major reasons....
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Oil palm and structural transformation of agriculture in Indonesia
Chrisendo, Daniel; Siregar, Hermanto; Qaim, Matin - 2020
Structural transformation of agriculture typically involves a gradual increase of mean farm sizes and a reallocation of labor from agriculture to other sectors. Such structural transformation is often fostered through innovations in agriculture and newly emerging opportunities in manufacturing...
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Migration and deforestation in Indonesia
Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan; Nuryartono, Nunung - 2016
small amount focuses on the relation-ship between migration and deforestation. Migration may contribute to the forest cover … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census … data with the satellite image data MODIS, we find a significant positive relationship between migration and deforestation …
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