Agent-based modelling of the social-ecological nature of poverty traps in southwestern Madagascar

Katja Brinkmann, Daniel Kübler, Stefan Liehr and Andreas Buerkert

Agricultural Systems, 2021, vol. 190, issue C

Abstract: In Madagascar land use pressure on natural resources has increased drastically over the last decades. For subsistence farmers this situation often leads to an accelerated unsustainable exploitation of resources with negative consequences for their livelihood, which can be described as a social-ecological trap (SET).

Keywords: Empirical data-driven model; Spatial agent-based modelling; Social-ecological trap; Food-self-sufficiency; Coping strategy; Sensitivity analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103125

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