Agricultural Intensification, Common Property Resources and the Farm-Household

Ramon Lopez

Environmental & Resource Economics, 1998, vol. 11, issue 3, 443-458

Abstract: This paper evaluates the impact of agricultural price and intensification policies for common property resources and welfare of rural communities in developing countries. In doing so we develop a new model for the farm-household that has analytical advantages over the traditional one and that has significant potential for empirical application. The major findings are: Technical assistance that increase productivity of land-intensive agricultural outputs (cereals, livestock, etc.) cause degradation of the communal resources and may cause immiserization. Policies that increase the prices of these goods cause identical effects. By contrast, similar policies applied to labor-intensive outputs (vegetables, tubers, etc.) contribute to improve the common resources and to increase the welfare of the rural communities. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

Keywords: agricultural intensification; common property; farm-household; price policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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