The Economics of Tropical Forest Land Use Options

Barbier, Edward B.; Burgess, Joanne C.

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“…This opportunity cost is the maximum forgone marginal benefice that could have been obtained elsewhere from the unit of land converted to agriculture. These results are consistent with the findings obtained by Barbier et al (1997) and Hartwick (1992). Imposing the full economic price (shadow price of forest land) to farmers will reduce, ceteris paribus, the demand of the land on the basis of the demand theory in the context of normal good where price (shadow price) and quantity are inversely related.…”

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Deforestation and Forest land Use in Côte d'Ivoire: Policy and Fiscal Instruments

Djezou¹

2016

Journal of Forest and Environmental Science

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This paper investigated policies that drive the sustainable management of Ivorian forest which disappear at an annual rate of 250000 hectares. Based on an inter-temporal model for optimum allocation of forest land to three competing uses, the article found that sustainability depends on the incentive structure, of which forest taxes and fees are a key, though obviously not the sole, component. The study proposed to increase the area fee level by accounting for environmental externalities generated by forest harvesters and farmers. The paper showed that the area fee is a decreasing function of the forest natural rate of regeneration and the reconversion rate of agricultural surfaces. Finally, at the given forest natural rate of regeneration and the reconversion rate of agricultural surfaces, the model argued that the area fee need to be progressive (arithmetic progression) in the context of ecological equilibrium break while it should remain constant in normal situation.

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Deforestation and Forest land Use in Côte d'Ivoire: Policy and Fiscal Instruments

Djezou¹

2016

Journal of Forest and Environmental Science

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“…4. This follows similar studies such as; Barbier and Burgess (1997);Capistrano (1994);Cropper and Griffiths (1994); Margulis (1991) and Southgate et al (1991). It can be argued that real exchange rates and technological change are also important variables that need to be examined under analysis of the impact of the SAP.…”

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Structural Adjustment Programme, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Ghana

Benhin

Barbier

2004

Environmental and Resource Economics

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Abstract. An empirical investigation is undertaken into the impact of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) on forest and biodiversity loss in Ghana between the period 1965-1995. In the first part of the analysis, a four-equation recursive model, consisting of forest loss, cocoa land, maize land and timber production equations, is employed to examine the impact of the SAP on forest loss. The first equation is a function of the last three, and the last three are functions of mainly prices. Piecewise linear and switching regression approaches are used to distinguish between the influence of the post from the pre-adjustment impacts. These results together with a specie-forest area relationship are used to investigate the impact of the SAP on biodiversity loss. The overall results indicate that cocoa land expansion and timber production, but not maize land expansion, are the significant causes of forest loss in Ghana. However, the impact on forest loss in the postadjustment period was reduced. The rate of biodiversity loss also reduced in the post-adjustment period. Changes in relative output and input prices due to the SAP may have played a significant role in the reduced impact of agricultural and timber related deforestation and biodiversity loss in the post-adjustment period.

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“…According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), deforestation accounts for 13% of GHG emissions (IPCC, 2014). These problems only acquired relevance in the economic literature in the 1990s (Barbier, 2001;Barbier and Burges, 1997). During that decade, the annual reduction of the natural tropical forest was 1% (15.2 The growth of urban areas adjacent to forest areas and the growth of international trade have accelerated the local and global demand for cropland from the rainforest, as is demonstrated in DeFries et al (2010).…”

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Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru

2015

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The growth of urban areas adjacent to forest areas, as well as international trade growth, has accelerated the demand for food. These areas of growth have led to the deforestation of tropical forests, a process that contributes negatively to climate change, and a decline in the provision of environmental services and biodiversity. This article seeks to propose and simulate a theoretical model of optimal control at the household level. This model is used to explain the dynamics of forest loss by expansion of the agricultural frontier. Under these conditions, based on tradable permanent crops, farmers decide whether to install new areas for cultivation or manage existing ones in a context of increasing transportation costs. We simulate a theoretical model using data on permanent crops in the high forest of Peru. The results of the model establish that there is a limit to the expansion of the agricultural frontier of the rainforest due to transportation costs. This limit can be surpassed in the context of the free movement of labor whenever these costs cause a decrease and/or increase in the price of land cultivation. Finally, the main policy recommendations of this study emphasize the subordination of transport policy to agroforestry and the conservation of forest ecosystems policies. Agroforestry design forest policies should consider the differential impact of the construction of highways and rural roads on the loss of tree cover as well as on sustainable food production, given that deforestation is not accelerated by the mere existence of roads but by the incentives that are presented to settlers to guide their efforts toward clearing new forest areas.

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The Economics of Tropical Forest Land Use Options

Cited by 166 publications

References 19 publications

Deforestation and Forest land Use in Côte d'Ivoire: Policy and Fiscal Instruments

Deforestation and Forest land Use in Côte d'Ivoire: Policy and Fiscal Instruments

Structural Adjustment Programme, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Ghana

Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru

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