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Losing territory : the effect of administrative splits on land use in the tropics
Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2023
villages, we analyze the effects of 115 district splits between 2002 and 2014. Results show a 35% deforestation decline within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442320
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Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Viet Nam
Abman, Ryan; Carney, Conor - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We … combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study … deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894307
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Agricultural Expansion, Forest Products as Safety Nets, and Deforestation
Delacote, Philippe - 2015
This paper aims to address the impact on deforestation of the use of forest products as safety nets by poor … strategies, crop risk reduction, lower risk aversion and larger population increase tropical deforestation. Forest profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223963
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Institutional Constraints and Deforestation : An Application to Mexico
Barbier, Edward B. - 2002
tropical deforestation through agricultural conversion. This allows a formal agricultural household analysis of institutional … constraints on deforestation, and therefore a method of empirically testing whether there is any significant difference in the … that institutional constraints on land clearing affected deforestation during the pre-NAFTA era …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119390
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Rain Follows the Forest : Land Use Policy, Climate Change, and Adaptation
Grosset, Florian; Papp, Anna; Taylor, Charles - 2023
Human actions can alter the local and regional climate, particularly via land use. We assess the impact of the Great Plains Shelterbelt, a large-scale forestation program in the 1930s which planted 220 million trees across six US Midwestern states. The program led to a regional increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262903
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Can numerical models estimate indirect land-use change?
Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - 2012
Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628101
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Foreign Direct Investment in Agriculture : Land Grab or Food Security Improvement?
Häberli, Christian - 2016
Is there something really new about "land grab" except its extent? What is wrong with an investment contract allowing the holder to buy a farm and to export wheat to Saudi Arabia, or soybeans and maize as cattle feed to Korea, or to plant and process sugar cane and palm oil into ethanol for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005368
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Developing consumption-based emissions indicators from Agriculture, Forestry and Land-use (AFOLU) activities
Garsous, Grégoire - 2021
Understanding consumption-based emissions from Agriculture, Forestry and Land-use (AFOLU) activities is important in developing climate policy for the sector. This paper proposes a new methodology to construct indicators – CBAFOLU indicators ‒ to provide estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696446
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Drivers of households' land-use decisions : a critical review of micro-level studies in tropical regions
Hettig, Elisabeth; Lay, Jann; Sipangule, Kacana - 2015
Keywords: land-use change, farm households, deforestation, meta-analysis, micro-level … countries. This is surprising, since evi-dence hints at high deforestation rates in South-East Asia due to logging activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325625
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Challenges and opportunities for the sustainable development of cattle raising in Brazil
Reis, Eustáquio José - 2016
The paper provides historical and analytical perspectives for the assessment of the challenges and opportunities of cattle raising activities in the transition towards a lowcarbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The next section presents long run historical perspectives on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060000