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Deforestation and Agricultural Productivity in the Côte d'Ivoire

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  • Simeon K. Ehui
  • Thomas W. Hertel

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An optimal control model is used to determine the optimal steady-state forest stock in the Côte d'Ivoire. This stock is shown to increase with increases in the forestry returns relative to those in agriculture. Technological progress in agriculture and increases in the social discount rate serve to lower the optimal steady-state forest stock. Based on an estimated aggregate yield function, the optimal forest stock is shown to be most sensitive to changes in the social rate of discount. Assuming current (1985) technology, deforestation appears socially optimal only for values of the discount rate greater than 8%.

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  • Simeon K. Ehui & Thomas W. Hertel, 1989. "Deforestation and Agricultural Productivity in the Côte d'Ivoire," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 71(3), pages 703-711.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:71:y:1989:i:3:p:703-711.
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    1. Henk Folmer & G. Cornelis van Kooten, 2006. "Deforestation," Working Papers 2006-06, University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Resource Economics and Policy Analysis Research Group.
      • Folmer, Henk & van Kooten, G. Cornelis, 2006. "Deforestation," Working Papers 37035, University of Victoria, Resource Economics and Policy.
    2. Ollivier, Hélène, 2012. "Growth, deforestation and the efficiency of the REDD mechanism," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 64(3), pages 312-327.
    3. Ngoma, Hambulo & Angelsen, Arild, 2018. "Can conservation agriculture save tropical forests? The case of minimum tillage in Zambia," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 153-162.
    4. Didier Tatoutchoup & Gérard Gaudet, 2011. "The impact of recycling on the long‐run forestry," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 44(3), pages 804-813, August.
    5. Castellanos, Yuli & Renau, Jorge Marco, 2023. "A Bioeconomic Approach to Sustainable Forest Management in the Colombian Amazon," EfD Discussion Paper 23-13, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg.
    6. R. Thiele, 1995. "Conserving Tropical Rain Forests In Indonesia: A Quantitative Assessment Of Alternative Policies," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(2), pages 187-200, May.
    7. Ngoma, Hambulo & Angelsen, Arild, 2017. "Can conservation agriculture save tropical forests? The case of minimum tillage in Zambia," Working Paper Series 02-2017, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, School of Economics and Business.
    8. Tatoutchoup, Francis Didier, 2016. "Optimal rate of paper recycling," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 264-269.

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