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 …

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 …

deforestation and the impact of climate change would rapidly and dramatically reduce the extent of the forest area and its density … short time due to global warming and deforestation combined. This 'die-back' in turn would itself contribute to an … regional climate, examines the evidence about deforestation trends and about the expected impact of climate change over the …

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 …

paper summarizes the key findings of a three-year study of deforestation in Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s prime regions for … growing shade coffee. First, we find that deforestation during the 1990s was significant. Second, the loss of tree cover can …

Shifting cultivation is often blamed as a principal cause of deforestation in tropical Africa. It is claimed that the … dramatic conclusion that shifting cultivators are causing deforestation in the forested region of Cameroon. …

aim of this paper is to derive the implications of this insurance use on the forest cover, and thus on deforestation. The …