Knoke, T.; Gosling, E. & Reith, E. (2022): <b>Understanding and modelling the ambiguous impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation</b>. <i>Journal of Land Use Science</i> <b>17</b>, 1-20.
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Title:
Understanding and modelling the ambiguous impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation
FOR816dw ID:
1971
Publication Date:
2022-11-16
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Resource Owner(s):
Individual:
Thomas Knoke
Contact:
email:
knoke <at> forst.tu-muenchen.de
Center of Life and Food Science Weihenstephan
Institute of Forest Management
Technische Universität München
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
85354 Freising
Germany
Individual:
Elizabeth Gosling
Contact:
email:
webmaster <at> tropicalmountainforest.org
Individual:
Esther Reith
Contact:
email:
webmaster <at> tropicalmountainforest.org
Abstract:
Few land-allocation models consider the impact of off-farm income on<br/>
tropical deforestation. We provide a concept to integrate off-farm income<br/>
in a mechanistic multiple-objective land-allocation model, while distinguishing<br/>
between farms with and without re-allocation of on-farm labor<br/>
to obtain off-farm income. On farms with re-allocation of labor we found<br/>
that off-farm income reduced farmers’ financial dependency on deforestation-<br/>
related agricultural income leading to less tropical deforestation.<br/>
The influence of off-farm income covered two aspects: availability of<br/>
additional income and re-allocation of on-farm labor to off-farm activities.<br/>
The labor effect tended to reduce deforestation slightly more than the<br/>
income effect. On farms without re-allocation of on-farm labor we showed<br/>
how farmers can use off-farm income to purchase additional labor to<br/>
accelerate deforestation. Our study highlights the importance of considering<br/>
off-farm income in land-use models to better understand, model<br/>
and possibly curb tropical deforestation.
Keywords:
| land use change |
Literature type specific fields:
ARTICLE
Journal:
Journal of Land Use Science
Volume:
17
Page Range:
1-20
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Metadata Provider:
Individual:
Thomas Knoke
Contact:
email:
knoke <at> forst.tu-muenchen.de
Center of Life and Food Science Weihenstephan
Institute of Forest Management
Technische Universität München
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
85354 Freising
Germany
