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Agricultural intensification, local labor markets, and deforestation in the Philippines

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dc.contributor.authorShively, Gerald E.en
dc.contributor.authorPagiola, Stefanoen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialPalawan regionen
dc.coverage.spatialThe Philippinesen
dc.coverage.temporal1994 - 2000en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:08Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:08Zen
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines agricultural intensification and its impact on deforestation in a frontier region of the Philippines. Panel data covering the period 1994-2000 are used to study labor demand and resource reallocation in response to lowland irrigation development. Results illustrate how irrigation has led to changes in employment, incomes, and activities at the forest margin. Findings indicate that the off-farm employment opportunities created by irrigation development have helped to reduce rates of forest clearing. Although some initial employment gains have been reversed, wage-induced increases in agricultural productivity in the uplands have reduced forest pressure. Results show that lowland irrigation has had direct, indirect, and lagged effects on rates of forest clearing, and that a virtuous cycle may be at play, with irrigation leading to both poverty reduction and reduced forest pressure.en
dc.description.notesBA-1 (SANREM Research in Southeast Asia)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier839en
dc.identifier.citationEnvironment and Development Economics 9: 241-266en
dc.identifier.issn1355-770Xen
dc.identifier.issn1469-4395en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65755en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2004 Cambridge University Pressen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWatershed managementen
dc.subjectDeforestationen
dc.subjectAgricultural intensificationen
dc.subjectThe Philippinesen
dc.subjectLabor marketsen
dc.subjectLowland irrigationen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleAgricultural intensification, local labor markets, and deforestation in the Philippinesen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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