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Mack, Elizabeth A. [Author]; Sauls, Laura Aileen [Author]; Jokisch, Brad D. [Author]; Nolte, Kerstin [Author]; Schmook, Birgit [Author]; He, Yifan [Author]; Radel, Claudia [Author]; Allington, Ginger R.H. [Author]; Kelley, Lisa C. [Author]; Scott, Christian Kelly [Author]; Leisz, Stephen [Author]; Chi, Guangqing [Author]; Sagynbekova, Lira [Author]; Cuba, Nicholas [Author]; Henebry, Geoffrey M. [Author]

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  • Media type: Text; E-Article
  • Title: Remittances and land change: A systematic review
  • Contributor: Mack, Elizabeth A. [Author]; Sauls, Laura Aileen [Author]; Jokisch, Brad D. [Author]; Nolte, Kerstin [Author]; Schmook, Birgit [Author]; He, Yifan [Author]; Radel, Claudia [Author]; Allington, Ginger R.H. [Author]; Kelley, Lisa C. [Author]; Scott, Christian Kelly [Author]; Leisz, Stephen [Author]; Chi, Guangqing [Author]; Sagynbekova, Lira [Author]; Cuba, Nicholas [Author]; Henebry, Geoffrey M. [Author]
  • Published: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2023
  • Published in: World Development 168 (2023) ; World Development
  • Issue: published Version
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/14867; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106251
  • ISSN: 0305-750X
  • Keywords: Rural ; Remittances ; Land change ; Land systems ; Migration ; Land use
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  • Description: Remittances—funds sent by migrants to family and friends back home—are an important source of global monetary flows, and they have implications for the maintenance and transformation of land systems. A number of published reviews have synthesized work on a variety of aspects of remittances (e.g., rural livelihoods, disasters, and economic development). To our knowledge, there are no reviews of work investigating the linkages between remittances and land change, broadly understood. This knowledge gap is important to address because researchers have recognized that remittances flows are a mechanism that helps to explain how migration can affect land change. Thus, understanding the specific roles remittances play in land system changes should help to clarify the multiple processes associated with migration and their independent and interactive effects. To address the state of knowledge about the connection between remittances and land systems, this paper conducts a systematic review. Our review of 51 journal articles finds that the linkages uncovered were commonly subtle and/or indirect. Very few studies looked at the direct connections between receipt of remittances and quantitative changes in land. Most commonly, the relationship between remittances and land change was found to occur through pathways from labor migration to household income to agricultural development and productivity. We find four non-exclusive pathways through which households spend remittances with consequent changes to land systems: (1) agricultural crops and livestock, (2) agricultural labor and technologies, (3) land purchases, and (4) non-agricultural purchases and consumables. In the papers reviewed, these expenditures are linked to various land system change outcomes, including land use change, soil degradation, pasture degradation, afforestation/deforestation/degradation, agricultural intensification/extensification/diversification, and no impact. These findings suggest four avenues for future research. One avenue is the use of the ...
  • Access State: Open Access