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SUBMITTER: Ceddia MG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4034233 | biostudies-other | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ceddia Michele Graziano MG Bardsley Nicholas Oliver NO Gomez-y-Paloma Sergio S Sedlacek Sabine S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140505 20
In this paper we address two topical questions: How do the quality of governance and agricultural intensification impact on spatial expansion of agriculture? Which aspects of governance are more likely to ensure that agricultural intensification allows sparing land for nature? Using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank, the World Database on Protected Areas, and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, we estimate a panel data model for six South American coun ...[more]