Why do Farmers Expand their Land into Forests? Theories and Evidence from Tanzania

Arild Angelsen (), E.F.K. Shitindi and J. Aarrestad

Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen from Department of Economics, University of Bergen

Abstract: This paper examines the causes of agricultural land expansion and deforestation in Tanzania. In the theoretical section, two different -and partly contradicting- sets of hypotheses are outlined.

Keywords: AGRICULTURE; ECONOMETRICS; ENVIRONMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 1999
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