Batabyal, Amitrajeet; DeAngelo, Gregory - In: Economics Bulletin 17 (2004) 3, pp. 1-10
The number of times a crop can be harvested on a cleared parcel of forest land (CPFL) before this land must be fallowed is dependent on the decision to use or not to use fertilizers to enhance soil fertility. As such, we first construct a theoretical model of fertilizer use by a swidden...