Family planning and deforestation: evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Sellers, Samuel

doi:10.1007/s11111-017-0275-1

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“…New farmers are said to clear more wetland to establish themselves especially wetlands that are regarded as communal lands. [25] and [32] found that higher rates of deforestation occur at early stages of farm settlement. Long cultivation results in declining yields so that an investment in the quality of the land would sustain its productivity, thereby increasing the benefits from the investment, which might encourage farmers to invest.…”

Section: Years Spent In Active Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

RETRACTED: Stakeholders’ Perceptions of the Problem of Wetland Degradation in the Ugandan Lake Victoria Basin Uganda

Nakiyemba¹,

Isabirye²,

Poesen³

et al. 2020

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This article has been retracted to straighten the academic record. In making this decision the Editorial Board follows COPE's Retraction Guidelines. The aim is to promote the circulation of scientific research by offering an ideal research publication platform with due consideration of internationally accepted standards on publication ethics. The Editorial Board would like to extend its sincere apologies for any inconvenience this retraction may have caused.

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Section: Years Spent In Active Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

RETRACTED: Stakeholders’ Perceptions of the Problem of Wetland Degradation in the Ugandan Lake Victoria Basin Uganda

Nakiyemba¹,

Isabirye²,

Poesen³

et al. 2020

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“…With more forest available there are more opportunities to deforest and the price of land usually lower. This was confirmed by regional and local studies in Ecuador since the 1980s [66,77,82,110] and in more recent cases in the Brazilian Amazon [89,98,115] and in Madre de Dios, Peru [116]. Farm size was also associated with greater deforestation, but in these cases, it was often due to the higher amount of forest available in those farms, rather than farm size itself being a reason for greater deforestation.…”

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confidence: 63%

“…Similarly, many studies across the biome linked forest loss to roads, reflected by a distinctive fish-bone pattern of deforestation. In fact, accessibility to markets via roads was identified as an important underlying driver in the Amazon [74][75][76][77]. Infrastructure thus acts as a twofold driver, both proximate and underlying, and often dictates the pattern of deforestation.…”

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“…This aligns with the classic net present value model of deforestation behavior (whereby land users are assumed to be motivated by differences in the discount flow of income they can get from different land uses). Studies in Peru [51,74], Bolivia [85,86], Ecuador [77,87] and Brazil [88,89] find that accessibility via roads and the resulting lowered transportation costs to local markets was associated with increased deforestation, especially due to pasture expansion and small-scale agriculture. Deforestation driven by local market access often spreads in a recognizable fishbone pattern from roads in less remote areas [90][91][92].…”

Section: Underlying Driversmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Less fertile, washed-out soil had less vegetation, which facilitated clearing but required more land to achieve the same production [100]. After 1995, however, when commodity agriculture became a more relevant proximate cause of deforestation, lower precipitation, good soil quality, and less drought attracted greater agricultural conversion and more deforestation [77,88,89,95].…”

Section: Underlying Driversmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome

Hänggli

Levy

Armenteras

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates of deforestation worldwide. This deforestation contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, the spread of infectious diseases, and damage to rural and indigenous livelihoods. Hundreds of articles have been published on the topic of deforestation across Amazonia, yet there has been no recent synthesis of deforestation drivers and deforestation-control policy effectiveness in the region. Here we undertook the first systematic review of papers published between 2000 to 2021 that have causally linked proximate and underlying drivers and policies to deforestation outcomes in Amazonia. In the 155 articles that met our inclusion criteria, we find that causal research is concentrated in Brazil, and to a lesser degree Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. There has been little study of the Guianas, Venezuela or Colombia. Large- and small-scale agriculture linked to improved market access and high agricultural prices are frequently researched proximate drivers of deforestation across the heavily researched regions. In the Guianas research focuses on mining with little focus on underlying causes. Research on infrastructure expansion, mining and oil extraction and on technological, sociocultural, and institutional factors remains sparse. Many public and private policies have been found to be effective in controlling deforestation across the biome, with protected areas standing out as particularly successful in slowing deforestation, vis-à-vis supply chain approaches. Our findings indicate a greater need for research on: i) additional deforestation drivers beyond agriculture and economic factors; ii) the complex interactions between different drivers and deforestation control policies; iii) causes underlying deforestation in low or new deforestation areas; and iv) the dynamics between Amazonian subregions and countries. Better understanding of all deforestation drivers and the effectiveness of existing deforestation mitigation policies is a prerequisite for completely halting deforestation in Amazonia.

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