Land tenure, asset heterogeneity and deforestation in Southern Burkina Faso

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 61, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-58

  Etongo, Daniel ^a   Djenontin, Ida Nadia S ^b   Kanninen, Markku ^a   Fobissie, Kalame ^a   Korhonen Kurki, Kaisa ^a,c   Djoudi, Houria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Center for International Forestry Research   (Burkina Faso)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Field expansion; Smallholders; Tobit regression; Uncertain land tenure

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; EXPANSION;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; BURKINA FASO; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LAND TENURE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; SMALLHOLDERS; TOBIT REGRESSION;

DEFORESTATION;

EID: 84945455657     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2015.08.006     Document Type: Article

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