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

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 environm...

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Autores principales:	Lucich,Iván M, Villena,Mauricio G, Quinteros,María José
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal 2015
Materias:	Agriculture deforestation transportation costs Peruvian Amazon
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-162020150002000032015-09-16Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from PeruLucich,Iván MVillena,Mauricio GQuinteros,María José Agriculture deforestation transportation costs Peruvian Amazon 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería ForestalCiencia e investigación agraria v.42 n.2 20152015-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-16202015000200003en10.4067/S0718-16202015000200003
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spellingShingle	Agriculture deforestation transportation costs Peruvian Amazon Lucich,Iván M Villena,Mauricio G Quinteros,María José Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru
description	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.
author	Lucich,Iván M Villena,Mauricio G Quinteros,María José
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title	Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru
title_short	Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru
title_full	Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru
title_fullStr	Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru
title_full_unstemmed	Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru
title_sort	transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: theory and evidence from peru
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal
publishDate	2015
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Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru

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