Food and the forest: A spatial analysis on the nexus between foreign direct investment and deforestation

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103353

Luca Bortolotti , Marta Marson , Donatella Saccone

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Abstract

This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on deforestation in non-OECD countries, in consideration of the potential trade-offs between economic objectives and environmental concerns and the pollution haven hypothesis. The study applies a multilevel fixed effects estimator to an original panel dataset of more than 4500 locations that received FDI across 120 countries between 2003 and 2019 and considers the sectors and sub-sectors of investment projects to examine heterogeneous land intensity in agricultural and food activities. Three main conclusions emerge. First, the food sector is primarily responsible for FDI-driven forest loss, while FDI projects in other sectors do not seem to significantly contribute to deforestation. Second, forest loss induced by food FDI is driven by specific sub-sectors; in particular, FDI projects in the food trade and services sub-sector seem to be significant, which is likely attributable to increased demand for local agricultural production. Third, animal industry FDI has the most significant impact on forest loss where the forest land cover is dominant.

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粮食与森林：外国直接投资与森林砍伐之间关系的空间分析

本研究考察了外国直接投资（FDI）对非经合组织国家森林砍伐的影响，同时考虑了经济目标与环境问题之间的潜在权衡以及污染天堂假说。该研究对 2003 年至 2019 年间 120 个国家的 4500 多个接受外国直接投资的地点的原始面板数据集采用了多层次固定效应估计方法，并考虑了投资项目的部门和分部门，以研究农业和食品活动中的异质性土地强度。研究得出了三个主要结论。首先，食品行业是外国直接投资造成森林损失的主要原因，而其他行业的外国直接投资项目似乎并没有对森林砍伐造成重大影响。第二，食品行业外国直接投资造成的森林损失是由特定的分部门驱动的；特别是，食品贸易和服务分部门的外国直接投资项目似乎很重要，这可能是由于对当地农业生产的需求增加。第三，在森林植被占主导地位的地方，畜牧业外国直接投资对森林损失的影响最大。

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Forest Policy and Economics 农林科学-林学

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

7.50%

发文量

148

审稿时长

21.9 weeks

期刊介绍： Forest Policy and Economics is a leading scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed policy and economics research relating to forests, forested landscapes, forest-related industries, and other forest-relevant land uses. It also welcomes contributions from other social sciences and humanities perspectives that make clear theoretical, conceptual and methodological contributions to the existing state-of-the-art literature on forests and related land use systems. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, sociology, anthropology, human geography, history, jurisprudence, planning, development studies, and psychology research on forests. Forest Policy and Economics is global in scope and publishes multiple article types of high scientific standard. Acceptance for publication is subject to a double-blind peer-review process.