TY  - RPRT
N2  - Research suggests that cash-cropping is associated with deforestation. We use
three-year data (2000-2002) from 493 households to estimate the association between
cash-cropping rice and deforestation. Doubling the area sown with rice is associated with
a 26-30% increase of the area of forest cleared next cropping season. We simulate the
changes required to reach 1US$/person/day income with cash from rice. We find that
within 10 years 1) deforestation would triple, 2) work requirements would exceed
household?s labor availability, and 3) fallows duration would decrease two-fold.
Avoiding growing deforestation due to cash-cropping by smallholders requires increasing
productivity, diversification of income sources, or both.
AV  - public
KW  - Latin America
KW  -  Bolivia
KW  -  deforestation
KW  -  cash crop
KW  -  poverty alleviation
KW  -  farm technology
A1  - Vadez, V
A1  - Reyes-Garcia, V
A1  - Huanca, T
A1  - Leonard, W R
TI  - Cash cropping, farm technologies, and deforestation: What are the connections?. Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study Working Paper # 18, Dec-2005
UR  - http://www.tsimane.org/working%20papers/TAPS-WP-18-DEFRICE-DEC-2005.pdf
Y1  - 2005///
ID  - icrisat3225
M1  - working_paper
PB  - Tsimane Amazonian Panel Study
ER  -