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permanence of land clearing (deforestation or temporary clearing). Even though subsistence households act independently, their … that is able to mimic the spatial patterns (mosaic) of land use typical of subsistence agriculture in southern Cameroon …
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Shifting cultivation is the primary means of livelihood for subsistence farmers throughout the humid forests of the tropics. They rely on the forest landscape as a source of fertile land to sustain their livelihood. Sustainable use of the resource base requires long periods of fallow and the...
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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 …
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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 …
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In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects …
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villages, we analyze the effects of 115 district splits between 2002 and 2014. Results show a 35% deforestation decline within …
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Rural agroforestry landscapes in West and Central Africa face a number of threats. Since decades, the ever escalating bushmeat crisis is pushing populations of threatened wildlife closer to extinction in many parts of West and Central Africa. In addition, population growth and economic needs are...
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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 …
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are theoretically ambiguous. Increasing the relative value of agricultural land may spur deforestation, but factor market … discontinuity in eligibility for a large agricultural extension program, we find that the program reduced deforestation by 13\%. The …
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