Market Integration, Development, and Smallholder Forest Clearance

• DOI: 10.2307/3146919
• Publication Date: 2006-05-10T12:27:08Z
• Authors: Linwood H. Pendleton; E. Lance Howe
• Keywords: Deforestation; Frontier; Market Integration

<i>A significant proportion of deforestation in Latin America is caused by smallholders living at the frontier modern rural markets. This paper develops a household model that examines roles market integration, subsistence, time preference, and non-timber forest uses household's decision to clear for future agriculture. The explores possible impacts development programs encourage integration. shows rates clearance should be exacerbated areas which integration most rapid. An empirical estimation, using data from Tsimane people Bolivia, tests hypotheses model.</i> (JEL Q23)