Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence
基于24个发展中国家7172户家庭的数据，研究发现27%的家庭在过去一年内将森林转为农业用地，平均砍伐1.21公顷，且资产较多、市场导向更强的家庭比最贫困的家庭更可能砍伐森林，挑战了贫困驱动森林砍伐的流行观点。
This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland. We use a large dataset comprising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty-seven percent of sampled households had converted forest to agriculture during the previous 12 months, clearing on average 1.21 ha. Male-headed households with abundance of male labor, living in recently settled places with high forest cover, unsurprisingly tended to clear more, but regional peculiarities abounded. Households with medium to high asset holdings and higher market orientation were more likely to clear forest than the poorest and market-isolated households, questioning popular policy narratives about poverty-driven forest clearing.