At loggerheads? Agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in the tropical forests
By Pieter Buys, K. Chomitz, Giacomo de Luca, Timothy S. Thomas, Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff. 2006
140 citations recorded by the source corpus.
There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This report specifically addresses the potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty reduction and environmental protection. It seeks to improve the diagnosis of forest problems and facilitate the prescription and application of solutions by focusing on both the causes and consequences of forest conversion to agriculture and on the nature and location of forest poverty. The first section is diagnostic, examining the drivers and consequences of deforestation and forest poverty. The second part looks at how governance, institutions, and policies shape those drivers. It identifies opportunities for win-win policies. In particular, anything that boosts labor demand outside agriculture will tend to reduce both poverty and deforestation. Additionally, promotion of some kinds of agroforestry can help to improve the ecological functions of degraded forests while boosting farm output and employment. The report offers a systematic framework for thinking about how to integrate forest management with rural development in a sustainable way.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4cfeb5047df1a724b106a7b6b7f258a205920dcd
Citations in the corpus
- The importance of local forest benefits: Economic valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania (2014, unknown): “More than 800 million people worldwide live in or near tropical forests and savannas, and rely on these ecosystems and their services and welfare benefits for fuel, food and income (Chomitz et al., 2007; Boyd and Banzhaf, 2007; Fisher et al., 2009).”
- Show Me the Money: Do Payments Supply Environmental Services in Developing Countries? (2010, unknown): “extent to which this leakage takes place is debated (Chomitz 2006).”
- Moving ahead with REDD: issues, options and implications (2008, unknown): “Successful REDD will preserve forests during this risky development phase, and much of it will turn out to be permanent (Chomitz et al. 2006).”