@article{Swinton:11627,
      recid = {11627},
      author = {Swinton, Scott M. and Quiroz, Roberto},
      title = {ARE POOR FARMERS TO BLAME FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION?  RESULTS FROM THE PERUVIAN ALTIPLANO},
      address = {2002},
      number = {1099-2016-89403},
      series = {Staff Paper 2002-14},
      pages = {35},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {Links between poverty and natural resource degradation are  examined in the context of soil erosion, fertility loss and  overgrazing in the Peruvian Altiplano.  Multiple regression  analysis of 1999 farm survey data examines 1) what  agricultural practices affect natural resource degradation,  and then 2) what factors affect farmers' choices of those  agricultural practices.  Soil erosion and fertility loss  appear reduced by increased fallow in crop rotations.   Overgrazing and range species loss are affected by changes  in herd size and rotational grazing.  The effect of  investment poverty on natural resource outcomes is not  clear.  However, social and human capital variables both  tend to favor the choice of more sustainable agricultural  practices.  Natural resource conservation policies that  build on traditional social institutions may offer promise  in areas with strong social fabric where farmers tend not  to invest financially in natural resource conservation.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11627},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.11627},
}