@article{Barnes:312530,
      recid = {312530},
      author = {Barnes, Andrew and Botero, Hernan and Rios, David and  Perez, Lisset and Ramirez-Villegas, Julian},
      title = {Identifying the Determinants of Land Use under Beans in  Santander, Colombia},
      address = {2019-06},
      number = {2412-2021-2101},
      year = {2019},
      abstract = {We identified the socioeconomic factors that help  determine the percentage of land use under common beans  (Phaseoulus Vulgaris) utilising a dataset collected by CIAT  in Santander, Colombia, composed of 566 common bean  growers. As some of the regressors employed were highly  correlated among themselves, we performed a latent class  analysis for six groups of thematic variables: other crops  grown, climatic change perceived, capital goods owned,  farming practices known, training received, and biotic  stressors controlled. Additionally, as the prices of beans  resulted to be endogenous to the percentage of land use  under beans, we run an IV regression to control for this  endogeneity problem, using socioeconomic factors as  instruments to control for farmers’ bargaining power to set  prices. Finally, we run fractional regression models to  identify the determinants of land use under beans. Four  factors arose as important determinants of this decision  within this farming community: the price of beans, the  total area of the farm, the practice of intercropping, and  climate change perception. Farmers with larger areas  dedicated less land to beans, those who intercropped  reduced the area under beans, small landowners were the  only ones who specialized in the cultivation of beans, and  farmers affected by droughts dedicated more land area to  growing beans, indicating that they relied on bean  production to stabilize their income in the presence of  climatic shocks.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/312530},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.312530},
}