Household Determinants of Deforestation by Amerindians in Honduras

Abstract

A survey of Amerindian households in the Honduran rain forest was done to test hypotheses about the effects of household variables on deforestation and identify policies to lower neotropical deforestation. The results suggest that: (a) the relation between income or age and deforestation resembles an inverted U; (b) fallow lands and illness had a positive link to deforestation; (c) household residence duration and size, education, off-farm income, credit, wealth, and rice yields reduced clearance. © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.