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Chapter 59 Land Use: Forest, Agriculture, and Biodiversity Competition

Sedjo, Roger A.; Simpson, R. David - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2979-3007). 2007

Since at least the time of von Thünen's contributions to the subject, economists have been interested in explaining land use in the hinterlands. This interest has grown with increasing societal demands on remaining forested areas and concern for the nonmarket resources generated by such...

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Trees and Farm Boundaries : Farm Forestry, Land Tenure and Reform in Kenya

Dewees, Peter A. - 2011

-planting practices, particularly the planting of trees on field boundaries, antedate contemporary 'social forestry' interventions, and …

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Deforestation and welfare : evidence from Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...

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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian A. - 2011

Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...

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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region

Parkatti, Vesa-Pekka; Tahvonen, Olli - 2020

We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest … husbandry, and a flexible optimization between rotation forestry (cf. clearcuts) and forestry that maintains continuous … forestcover. We show that the profitability of conventional forestry is based on utilizing existing forest stands, an outcome that …

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Determinants of Forestry Investment and Extent of Forestry Expansion by Smallholders in New Zealand

Dhakal, Bhubaneswor - 2012

While there has been a large increase in investment in plantation forestry in New Zealand by smallholders during the … only a portion of their potentially planted land for forestry. To understand why this is the case this paper studies two … proportion of land used in forestry by smallholders who have identified that who have potentially plantable land. Land used in …

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