The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia
ABSTRACTMany armed conflicts worldwide occur in biodiversity hotspots and nearly 50% of those conflicts occur in forested regions. In Colombia, the armed conflict has implied the clearing of large forest tracts for the establishment of illicit crops. The aim of this study was to assess the role that...
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| description | ABSTRACTMany armed conflicts worldwide occur in biodiversity hotspots and nearly 50% of those conflicts occur in forested regions. In Colombia, the armed conflict has implied the clearing of large forest tracts for the establishment of illicit crops. The aim of this study was to assess the role that illicit crops played in the deforestation dynamics in Colombia between 2001 and 2014. We established a database with the annual deforestation rates and nine predictors for 1120 municipalities and built fixed effects models that take spatial autocorrelation into account. Model selection with AIC suggested that the area cultivated with coca crops was the best predictor of annual rates of deforestation, whereas coca crop removal was associated with increasing forest cover.According to our results, coca crops promoted deforestation in Colombia between 2001 and 2014 through indirect (spilling-over to nearby areas), immediate and temporally-lagged mechanisms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7e86ba6ec0ca4baea1430ff78b30e27b2024-03-25T18:27:59ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Land Use Science1747-423X1747-42482022-01-01171475910.1080/1747423X.2021.2020921The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in ColombiaViviana Quiroga Angel0Stevenson Pablo1Helene H. Wagner2Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, ColombiaLaboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, ColombiaDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Toronto, Mississauga, CanadaABSTRACTMany armed conflicts worldwide occur in biodiversity hotspots and nearly 50% of those conflicts occur in forested regions. In Colombia, the armed conflict has implied the clearing of large forest tracts for the establishment of illicit crops. The aim of this study was to assess the role that illicit crops played in the deforestation dynamics in Colombia between 2001 and 2014. We established a database with the annual deforestation rates and nine predictors for 1120 municipalities and built fixed effects models that take spatial autocorrelation into account. Model selection with AIC suggested that the area cultivated with coca crops was the best predictor of annual rates of deforestation, whereas coca crop removal was associated with increasing forest cover.According to our results, coca crops promoted deforestation in Colombia between 2001 and 2014 through indirect (spilling-over to nearby areas), immediate and temporally-lagged mechanisms.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/1747423X.2021.2020921Deforestationillicit cropsarmed conflict |
| spellingShingle | Viviana Quiroga Angel Stevenson Pablo Helene H. Wagner The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia Journal of Land Use Science Deforestation illicit crops armed conflict |
| title | The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia |
| title_full | The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia |
| title_fullStr | The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia |
| title_short | The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia |
| title_sort | effect of illicit crops on forest cover in colombia |
| topic | Deforestation illicit crops armed conflict |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/1747423X.2021.2020921 |
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