Lecture Series of the Department of Development Studies
M. Graziano Ceddia
Associate Professor at MODUL University Vienna
Institutional aspects of deforestation in Latin
America:
the role of land tenure regimes and indigenous
peoples rights
Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 4.15-5.45 pm
Seminar room, IE, Department of African Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Courtyard 5, 1090 Vienna
Discussant & Chair:
Magdalena Heuwieser (Finance & Trade Watch)
Rainer Einzenberger (Department of Development Studies)
Agricultural expansion remains the most important proximate cause of tropical deforestation,
while interactions between socio-economic, technological and institutional factors represent
the fundamental drivers. First, I will analyse the process of agricultural expansion across eleven
Latin American countries over the period 1990–2010 to assess whether, in a context of
agricultural intensification, different land tenure regimes impact differently on the realization
of land-sparing or Jevons paradox. Subsequently, I will explore a number of open research
questions realted to the issue of indigenous peoples rights to land and territory and
deforestation in the context of the North Chaco in Western Argentina. The questions stem
from a research project recently awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant.