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The demand for agricultural land is globally increasing due to population growth and dietary diversification. As the availability of agricultural land is limited, much of the cropland expansion is occurring at the expense of tropical forests. During the past few decades, oil palm has become one...
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major driver of deforestation. Much of the forest in Jambi was cleared more than 20 years ago, and rubber was an established … activities, so indirect effects on deforestation are likely. The government's transmigration program of the 1980s and 1990s was …
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major driver of deforestation. Much of the forest in Jambi was cleared more than 20 years ago, and rubber was an established … activities, so indirect effects on deforestation are likely. The government's transmigration program of the 1980s and 1990s was …
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Changes in land use, such as deforestation, expansion of sedentary agriculture and intensification of agricultural …
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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 ex-pected to promote deforestation activities by rural households … from forest encroachment. Sec-ond, the emergence of speculative land markets, which could accel-erate deforestation, is …
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details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …
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Mobile phone based money services have spread rapidly in many developing countries. We analyze micro level impacts using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income. One important pathway is through remittances, which...
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