Impact of access to modern seed varieties on deforestation
HANSEN
Using both remotely-sensed forest cover change data and a large-scale household survey representative of the smallholder farmer population in the area, we next investigate how the adoption of modern seed varieties translated into changes in land-use decisions by comparing deforestation outcomes in the 60 treatment villages with those in the 32 control villages. As we also randomly varied the level of subsidy among households within treatment villages, we further compare plot level deforestation outcomes between households that received high versus low levels of subsidy. Last, as we randomly varied the share of households receiving subsidies across treatment villages, we were able to estimate whether the extent of village-level exposure matters (see “Methods” section).We first estimate village-level deforestation using remotely-sensed forest cover change data from Hansen et al.The first two bar clusters of Fig. The three bar clusters on the right of Fig. 