HOUSEHOLD DETERMINANTS OF DEFORESTATION BY AMERINDIANS IN HONDURAS

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