@article{RodriguezGarcia:277206,
      recid = {277206},
      author = {Rodriguez Garcia, V. and Meyfroidt, P. and Gaspart, F.},
      title = {Agricultural intensification and land use change: A panel  cointegration approach to test induced intensification,  land sparing and rebound-effect.},
      address = {2018-07},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {The growing societal demands for land-based products and  services, linked to increasing population, can be satisfied  through either clearing new land for agriculture or  intensifying production on existing land. Agricultural  intensification is promoted as a central strategy to  fulfill these demands while reducing pressure on land. We  used cross-country panel data on cropland area and  productivity to test three hypotheses on the relationships  between agricultural intensification, land use expansion  and contraction. The induced intensification hypothesis  postulates that restrictions on cropland expansion can  induce intensification. The land sparing hypothesis  postulates that intensification allows reducing cropland  expansion, while the competing rebound-effect hypothesis  asserts that intensification, by making agriculture more  profitable, can trigger further land expansion. We used  cointegration to disentangle the long-run and short-run  causal relationships between the variables. In the short  run, we found support for the induced intensification  hypothesis for high-income countries, and rebound effect  for middle- and low-income countries (due to increases in  yield or total factor productivity (TFP) that lead to  cropland expansion). In the long run, the land sparing  hypothesis holds for low- and middle-income countries (due  to increases in yield negatively affecting cropland area).  TFP has a positive effect on yields for low- and  middle-income countries. 

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      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/277206},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.277206},
}