Oil palm development and forced displacement in Colombia: Causal or spurious?

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Autores Principales: Hurtado Lozano, Mónica, Pereira Villa, Catherine María, Villa Pérez, Edgar
Formato: journal article
Lenguaje:Español (Spanish)
Publicado: Cuadernos de Economía 06/1
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spelling ir-10818-331392022-05-25T16:58:37Z Oil palm development and forced displacement in Colombia: Causal or spurious? Hurtado Lozano, Mónica Pereira Villa, Catherine María Villa Pérez, Edgar Forced displacement Palm oil agribusiness Armed conflict Microeconometric panel data model 28 páginas This article analyses whether forced displacement in the Magdalena Department (Colombia) between 2000-2010 was caused not only by the intensity of the armed conflict but also by the growth of the palm agribusiness. We find that a seven percentage point increase in the area used to produce palm per municipality caused an increase of a third of a standard deviation in the rate of forced displacement. These calculations were made on average and after controlling for armed conflict. We rationalize this finding by the fact that the development of the palm oil agribusiness caused displacement due to its land-intensive technology, increasing international prices combined with government subsidies, and the process was aided by paramilitary activities in the region. Este artículo analiza si el desplazamiento forzado en el departamento del Mag-dalena (colombia) entre los años 2000-2010 tuvo como causa no solo la intensi-dad del conflicto armado sino también el crecimiento del agronegocio de la palma. Encontramos que un aumento del 7% en la zona utilizada para la producción de palma por municipalidad causó un aumento de un tercio de una desviación están-dar en el índice de desplazamiento forzado. dichos cálculos se hicieron por tér-mino medio y tras el control del conflicto armado. Racionalizamos este hallazgo por el hecho de que el desarrollo del agronegocio del aceite de palma provocó desplazamiento debido a su tecnología intensiva en tierra, aumento de precios internacionales combinado con subsidios gubernamentales y que al proceso con-tribuyeron actividades paramilitares en la región. 06/13/2018 9:47 06/13/2018 9:47 2016-05-25 journal article publishedVersion Hurtado, M., Pereira-Villa, C., & Villa, E. (2016). Oil Palm development and forced displacement in Colombia: Causal or spurious? Cuadernos de Economía, 36(71), 555 - 558. 0121-4772 https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ceconomia/article/view/52554 https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ceconomia/article/view/52554/58816 http://hdl.handle.net/10818/33139 10.15446/cuad.econ.v36n71.52554 spa Cuadernos de Economía, 36(71), julio-diciembre de 2017 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ openAccess application/pdf Cuadernos de Economía Universidad de La Sabana Intellectum Repositorio Universidad de La Sabana Universidad de La Sabana Intellectum Repositorio Universidad de La Sabana https://intellectum.unisabana.edu.co
institution Universidad de La Sabana
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language Español (Spanish)
topic Forced displacement
Palm oil agribusiness
Armed conflict
Microeconometric panel data model
spellingShingle Forced displacement
Palm oil agribusiness
Armed conflict
Microeconometric panel data model
Hurtado Lozano, Mónica
Pereira Villa, Catherine María
Villa Pérez, Edgar
Oil palm development and forced displacement in Colombia: Causal or spurious?
description 28 páginas
format journal article
author Hurtado Lozano, Mónica
Pereira Villa, Catherine María
Villa Pérez, Edgar
author_facet Hurtado Lozano, Mónica
Pereira Villa, Catherine María
Villa Pérez, Edgar
author_sort Hurtado Lozano, Mónica
title Oil palm development and forced displacement in Colombia: Causal or spurious?
title_short Oil palm development and forced displacement in Colombia: Causal or spurious?
title_full Oil palm development and forced displacement in Colombia: Causal or spurious?
title_fullStr Oil palm development and forced displacement in Colombia: Causal or spurious?
title_full_unstemmed Oil palm development and forced displacement in Colombia: Causal or spurious?
title_sort oil palm development and forced displacement in colombia: causal or spurious?
publisher Cuadernos de Economía
publishDate 06/1
url http://hdl.handle.net/10818/33139
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