Does Charcoal Production Slow Agricultural Expansion into the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest?

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 527-540

  Labarta, Ricardo A ^a   White, Douglas S ^b   Swinton, Scott M ^c  

^a International Potato Center (CIP)   (Mozambique)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

charcoal; deforestation; economics; labor; Latin America; Peru

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CHARCOAL; DEFORESTATION; DRY SEASON; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LATIN AMERICA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 39149089983     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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