Rural poverty, household responses to shocks, and agricultural land use: panel results for El Salvador

Autor:	Jorge Rodriguez-Meza, Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Douglas Southgate
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Precautionary demand Subsistence agriculture Development Per capita income Natural resource Agricultural economics Kuznets curve Rural poverty Agricultural land Development economics Economics General Environmental Science Panel data
Zdroj:	Environment and Development Economics. 9:225-239
ISSN:	1469-4395 1355-770X
DOI:	10.1017/s1355770x03001244
Popis:	This paper addresses factors influencing agricultural land use in rural households in El Salvador, with particular attention paid to the effects of income. Two linkages between the area a household farms and income per capita are critical. First, there is a precautionary demand for land that can be used for subsistence agriculture and this demand declines as income rises. Second, the area a household is able to farm goes up as income increases. Together, these two linkages imply that the relationship between agricultural land use and per capita income takes the shape of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC).Using panel data collected since 1995 in four biennial surveys of a nationally representative sample of rural households, we have analyzed agricultural land use at the household level. Evidence of an EKC relating farmed area to per capita income has been obtained. In addition, other factors influencing a household's use of natural resources have been examined.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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