Outmigration leads to reforestation in Nepal

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Description

  • Reforestation is likely higher in areas with higher level of outmigration
  • Money sent back home allows households to quit farming and move to urban areas
  • Forest regeneration happens in abandoned farmlands
Period25 Aug 2018

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Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Global inequalities
  • Global Development Institute