The article aims to provide an overview of China's agricultural development and its
sustainability by focusing on the agriculture–environmental nexus. We first review literature …

Important transformations are underway in tropical landscapes in Latin America with
implications for economic development and climate change. Landscape transformation is …

PES programs have been touted as a means to achieve conservation goals while also
alleviating poverty and promoting rural development. However, the degree to which these …

Global tropical deforestation continues to occur at high rates despite political attention.
National-level forest baselines are being established all over the world to guide the …

Environmental and climatic changes have shaped human mobility for thousands of years
and research on the migration-environment connection has proliferated in the past several …

Abstract We model Central American migrant-sending household agricultural practices
given labor losses and the concomitant infusion of remittances. Under the new economics of …

Adverse climatic conditions may differentially drive human migration patterns between rural
and urban areas, with implications for changes in population composition and density …

Research into the climate change and migration nexus has often focussed solely on how
people move in response to the impacts of variability and change in climate. This notion …

In this paper we address two topical questions: How do the quality of governance and
agricultural intensification impact on spatial expansion of agriculture? Which aspects of …

In rural Ecuador and elsewhere in Latin America, the departure of migrants and the receipt
of migrant remittances have led to declining rural populations and increasing cash incomes …