Designing Policies to Reduce Rural Poverty and Environmental Degradation in a Hillside Zone of the Colombian Andes
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| Author(s) | Agudelo, C. Rivera, B. Tapasco, J. Estrada, R. |
| Date | November 2003 |
| Reference type | Journal Article |
| Source name | World Development |
| Journal | Vol 31 No 11 |
| Pages | pp. 1921-1931 |
| Publisher | Elsevier Science Ltd, UK |
Summary
A household survey in a hillside zone of the Colombian Andes was used to develop a typology of farm households based on their assets and productive activities. Household poverty was not found to be directly correlated with environmental degradation. Degradation seems to be a function of farmers’ productive activities, depending on the type of assets that they own. Based on linear programming simulation, cost-efficient policy interventions were prioritized to account for both household poverty and the potential for environmental improvement.
Themes
Government Policy
Geographic coverage
Colombia
DOI
10.1016/j.worlddev.2003.06.007