Farm production efficiency and natural forest extraction: Evidence from Cambodia

authored by

Trung Thanh Nguyen, Truong Lam Do, Priyanka Parvathi, Ada Wossink, Ulrike Grote

Abstract

Farm production and natural forest extraction remain principal livelihood strategies of local people in many rural areas of the developing world. In this paper, we apply stochastic frontier analysis to evaluate farm production efficiency and simultaneous equations modelling to estimate the interrelationship between farm production efficiency and natural forest extraction. We use a two-year panel dataset of 430 rural households in Stung Treng province of Cambodia. We find that natural forest extraction is decreasing in farm production efficiency. Our results suggest that improving farm production efficiency, via the promotion of rural education and privatization of farm land, should be considered an integral component of natural forest conservation policy.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Environmental Economics and World Trade
Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics

External Organisation(s)

Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology
University of Manchester

Type

Article

Journal

Land Use Policy

Volume

71

Pages

480-493

No. of pages

14

ISSN

0264-8377

Publication date

02.2018

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Forestry, Geography, Planning and Development, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 15 - Life on Land

Electronic version(s)

https://research.manchester.ac.uk/files/61189309/2017_LUP_Cambodia_MU_R1.docx (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.016 (Access: Closed)