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"Agricultural intensification, trade, and deforestation: theoretical and numerical analyses in a computable general equilibrium framework" by Taheripour, Farzad, Alla Golub, Erwin Corong and Rayan Wolf Abstract Yield improvement expands supplies of agricultural products and has been considered as a land-sparing strategy to reduce demand for new cropland. However, this is not a common view. It has been argued that agricultural productivity leads to expansion of cropland areas, which in turn generates deforestation. The extent to which intensification affects demand for land is a controversial issue and has been widely debated in the literature. The papers that have studied the relationship between yield improvement and demand for land commonly suffer from three deficiencies: 1) disregarded intensification due to improvements in harvest frequency; 2) considered food as the only demand for agricultural products; 3) ignored the role of the supply side of the market for land. This paper aims to fill these gaps in the literature by developing a new analytical model to discuss the extent to which the above factors may alter the link between intensification and deforestation. Then, it uses a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model, GTAP-BIO, to assess the extent to which multiple cropping may affect deforestation for a representative country with a double cropping farming activity. c |
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- Land use - GTAP Data Base and extensions - Agricultural policies - Advances in quantitative methods - Model extension/development - Global |
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