Poverty and deforestation
1991
Sopin Tongpan (Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics)
Declining of forest area in Thailand has reached a critical stage. The forest area dropped drastically from 43 percent of the country's total area in 1973 to only 28 percent in 1988, while deforestation keeps going on. And yet, poverty and income distribution problem has not improved. This study focused on the analysis of the family income pattern of those living in encroached national forest; both from agriculture and from wages. Variation of family income from agriculture can be explained by changes of production input used, especially on cash expenses and education which also affected income from wages. Income from agriculture obviously dropped as number of years of settlements increased. In a separate model, deforestation was highly associated with family income; i.e. lower income led to more deforestation. Therefore, to solve poverty and deforestation problems, it is essential to improve family income through increasing agricultural productivity of the families living in encroached area.
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