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Cash Cropping, Farm Technologies, and Deforestation: What are the Connections? A Model with Empirical Data from the Bolivian Amazon

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Title Cash Cropping, Farm Technologies, and Deforestation: What are the Connections? A Model with Empirical Data from the Bolivian Amazon
 
Creator Vadez, V
Reyes-García, V
Huanca, T
Leonard, W R
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Research suggests that cash cropping is positively associated with deforestation. We use three-year data (2000-2002, inclusive) from 493 households to estimate the association between cash cropping rice and deforestation. Doubling the area sown with rice is associated with a 26-30 percent increase in the area of forest cleared during the next cropping season. We simulate the changes in rice cultivation to reach a daily income level of $1/person from cash cropping rice. We find that within 10 years: (1) the amount of deforestation would triple, (2) work requirements would exceed household's labor availability, and (3) fallows duration would decrease two-fold. To avoid the increase of deforestation from cash cropping requires increasing productivity, diversification of income sources, or both.
 
Date 2008
 
Type Article
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Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/2692/1/HumanOrg67_4_384-396_2008.pdf
Vadez, V and Reyes-García, V and Huanca, T and Leonard, W R (2008) Cash Cropping, Farm Technologies, and Deforestation: What are the Connections? A Model with Empirical Data from the Bolivian Amazon. Human Organization, 67 (4). pp. 384-396.