The socioeconomic determinants of legal and illegal smallholder logging: Evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Vasco, Cristian; Torres, Bolier; Pacheco, Pablo; Griess, Verena C.

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2017.01.015

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“…It is also worth noting that unsustainable land use practices have also been reported for other indigenous groups, such as the Secoya of the northern Ecuadorian Amazon during the 1990s [ 12 ]. Also in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon, Vasco et al [ 68 ] found that Kichwa households are as likely as mestizo colonists to engage in illegal logging. These examples as well as this present work suggest that different ethnic groups exhibit different land use patterns depending on local conditions, migratory and settlement histories and location, level of exposure to markets, and external factors.…”

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Agricultural land use among mestizo colonist and indigenous populations: Contrasting patterns in the Amazon

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This paper compares land use patterns of mestizo colonists and indigenous populations in the central Ecuadorian Amazon, based on data from a household survey covering mestizo colonist, Kichwa and Shuar households. As expected, colonists mostly engage in commercial agriculture and cattle ranching, but there are substantial differences in land use patterns between the Shuar and the Kichwa. The Shuar engage in cash cropping and cattle ranching, and on average, devote even more land to agricultural uses than mestizo colonists in this sample. In contrast, the Kichwa engage more in subsistence crop production and less in commercial agriculture. Such different patterns appear related to local conditions, earlier migratory and settlement patterns, and the level of exposure to markets. The implications of this for policy are explored in the conclusions.

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“…Since the discovery of crude oil in 1967, this region began to be occupied by agricultural settler families [37] who migrated from other rural areas of Ecuador [38,39], then roads were laid down for the oil exploitation and the Agrarian Reform Laws were enacted (1964 and 1972), which stimulated the colonization of Amazonian forest land [37,39]. These factors have promoted an intense process of land use change that generally follows similar productive and survival strategies, including the cultivation of subsistence and cash crops, pasture to raise cattle [40][41][42] and timber logging [39,41,43], as well as land fragmentation due to population growth [38,40]. However, during the last two decades, Ecuador has made efforts to encourage sustainable development.…”

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Determinants of Agricultural Diversification in a Hotspot Area: Evidence from Colonist and Indigenous Communities in the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve, Ecuadorian Amazon

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With data from a household survey covering migrant settlers and indigenous (Kichwa) communities in the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve (SBR), this study analyses the drivers of agricultural diversification/specialisation, focusing on the role of ethnicity and the livelihood strategies (LS) they follow. Data were collected using the Poverty and Environment Network methodology of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-PEN). In order to establish the drivers of agricultural diversification, the number of crops and the Shannon index of crops areas were used as the dependent variables in ordinary least square (OLS) models, while a multinomial logit model (MLM) was used to assess a household's degree of diversification. The results of the OLS regression provides evidence supporting the notion that households, with Livestock-based and Wage-based livelihood strategies (LS) are less diversified and more specialized than households with Crop-based LS. Ethnicity has a positive and significant effect on agricultural diversification, with Kichwa farms more diversified than those of their migrant colonist counterparts. The results of the multinomial logit model (MLM) show that large Kichwa households, with Crop-based and Forest-based LS are more likely to adopt a highly diversified agricultural strategy. Based on these findings, we recommend a redirection of agricultural incentives, towards the adoption of diversified agricultural systems, as a strategy to promote more sustainable production systems in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region.

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“…For instance, households with high educational background and low endowments of natural capital (land and forest) are more likely to earn their sustenance from nonfarm work as a way of both coping with natural resource scarcity to get the highest returns from education. On the other hand, households with little educational background and a high natural capital base (forest) are more likely to earn a living from mining goods because they lack the skills and resources to diversify their sources of income [27].…”

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Illegal Mining and Sustainability Performance: Evidence from Ashanti Region, Ghana

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As illegal mining in Ghana has become increasingly rampant ever, this study aimed at examining the effect of illegal mining on the dimensions of sustainability performance among crop farmers and the challenges they face because of illegal mining in the Ashanti Region, Ghana. To investigate the intriguing connections among illegal mining and sustainability performance among crop farmers, this paper draws on multidisciplinary literature and collects empirical data from 250 respondents in the Atwima Nwabiagya and Atwima Mponua Districts, Ghana to test the proposed model and hypotheses using structural equation modeling. All the three (3) elements or paradigms of sustainability performance were negatively affected by illegal mining activities. It was also observed that a significant positive relationship exists among all the elements of sustainability performance hence a consequence on one element may affect the other. Unlike most research on illegal mining that has been theoretical, this study represents one of the few empirical analyses of how illegal mining may affect sustainability performance

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The socioeconomic determinants of legal and illegal smallholder logging: Evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Cited by 32 publications

References 30 publications

Agricultural land use among mestizo colonist and indigenous populations: Contrasting patterns in the Amazon

Agricultural land use among mestizo colonist and indigenous populations: Contrasting patterns in the Amazon

Determinants of Agricultural Diversification in a Hotspot Area: Evidence from Colonist and Indigenous Communities in the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve, Ecuadorian Amazon

Illegal Mining and Sustainability Performance: Evidence from Ashanti Region, Ghana

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