Farming in Rondônia

Jones, Donald W.; Dale, Virginia H.; Beauchamp, John J.; Pedlowski, Marcos Antônio; O’Neill, Robert V.

doi:10.1016/0928-7655(94)00011-8

Cited by 48 publications

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“…But household models of land use rarely account for endogeneity in land allocation decisions (e.g., Jones et al, 1995). Most common are models that assume independence among the various outcomes (e.g., Perz, 2001;Pichón, 1997).…”

Section: Modeling Land Use Allocationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Population and Environment: Household Demographic Life Cycles and Land Use Allocation Among Small Farms in the Amazon

2006

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Most research featuring demographic factors in environmental change has focused on processes operating at the level of national or global populations. This paper focuses on household-level demographic life cycles among colonists in the Amazon, and evaluates the impacts on land use allocation. The analysis goes beyond prior research by including a broader suite of demographic variables, and by simultaneously assessing their impacts on multiple land uses with different economic and ecological implications. We estimate a system of structural equations that accounts for endogeneity among land uses, and the findings indicate stronger demographic effects than previous work. These findings bear implications for modeling land use, and the place of demography in environmental research.

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Section: Modeling Land Use Allocationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Population and Environment: Household Demographic Life Cycles and Land Use Allocation Among Small Farms in the Amazon

2006

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“…For example, research has shown that duration of residence increases the cutting of old growth forest, and reduces the amount of forested land on colonist properties (Pichón 1997;Godoy et al, 1997b and. Duration of residence is also linked to land uses such as coffee plantations and pastures that would presumably require prior clearing (Jones et al, 1995;Pichón, 1997). Besides the duration of residence effect, attributes of household structure affect land use and deforestation in several studies.…”

Section: D) Household Lifecycle and The Environmentmentioning

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Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

Sherbinin¹,

VanWey²,

McSweeney³

et al. 2008

Global Environmental Change

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This paper reviews and synthesizes findings from scholarly work on linkages among rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment. Using the livelihood approach as an organizing framework, we examine evidence on the multiple pathways linking environmental variables and the following demographic variables: fertility, migration, morbidity and mortality, and lifecycles. Although the review draws on studies from the entire developing world, we find the majority of micro-level studies have been conducted in either marginal (mountainous or arid) or frontier environments, especially Amazonia. Though the linkages are mediated by many complex and often context-specific factors, there is strong evidence that dependence on natural resources intensifies when households lose human and social capital through adult morbidity and mortality, and qualified evidence for the influence of environmental factors on household decision-making regarding fertility and migration. Two decades of research on lifecycles and land-cover change at the farm level have yielded a number of insights about how households make use of different land-use and natural resource management strategies at different stages. A thread running throughout the review is the Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access

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“…Analyses on local deforestation examine the significance of explanatory variables for the household extraction of forest products. A partial list of these variables includes household size, income, education, year of residency in a village, caste, wage rate, off-farm employment, agricultural technology, distance to market, transport cost, access to credit and information, land tenure, productivity, soil quality, climate, and land price (Jones et al 1995;Godoy et al 1997;Foster et al 2002;Holden et al 1997; Bardhan et al 2001;Adhikari et al 2004). This list suggests that the ''width'' of knowledge base on the subject.…”

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Household-specific variables and forest dependency in an Indian hotspot of biodiversity: challenges for sustainable livelihoods

Jha

2008

Environ Dev Sustain

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Deforestation studies have attracted considerable attention over the past two decades. Analyses of local deforestation examine the significance of numerous explanatory variables for the extraction of forest products. This study distinguishes among the explanatory variables as household-specific and site-specific, and argues for in-depth analysis of household-specific variables. It examines the role of household size, income, and education on firewood extraction and beedi-making in the Western Ghats of India, a hotspot of biodiversity. The study documents the incidence of these livelihoods, investigates the interaction among the three variables, and uses logistic regression models to determine the exact probability for the livelihoods. Two novel features of the study include analysis of wood and non-wood extraction through a single dataset and determination of model by the data. The results show high dependency of households on forest-based livelihoods, situations when the probability of livelihoods changes substantially, and nonparallel trends for household dependency. The study suggests the role of household-specific variables as the agents of motivation and persistence for forest-based livelihoods and presents a hypothesis about the critical size of household in forest dependency. The study recommends four measures-harvest of ecosystem services, rise in income, migration and mobility, and environmental education-to promote sustainable livelihoods.

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Farming in Rondônia

Cited by 48 publications

References 22 publications

Beyond Population and Environment: Household Demographic Life Cycles and Land Use Allocation Among Small Farms in the Amazon

Beyond Population and Environment: Household Demographic Life Cycles and Land Use Allocation Among Small Farms in the Amazon

Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

Household-specific variables and forest dependency in an Indian hotspot of biodiversity: challenges for sustainable livelihoods

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