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…(Scopus)The Cost of Armed Conflict to Agriculture in Colombia
Wilman Iglesias Pinedo
Vocational Economics Inc., 2535 Landmark Drive, Clearwater, FL, 33761, USA.
Lilyan Fulginiti
University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0922, USA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36956/rwae.v5i3.1136
Received: 20 June 2024; Published: 6 September 2024
Copyright © 2024 Wilman Iglesias Pinedo, Lilyan Fulginiti, Professor. Published by Nan Yang Academy of Sciences Pte. Ltd..
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Armed conflict in rural areas of Colombia has displaced and killed many people. This violence increases the risk in the agricultural enterprise leading to reductions in investments and technology adoption that could significantly lower agricultural productivity. To explore the relationship between this violence and productivity of the licit agricultural sector, we estimate an aggregate agricultural production function at the department level for 1995-2017 that includes violence levels and incentives for illicit agriculture. We estimate that the Colombian armed conflict was costly to agriculture because it is associated with a decrease in licit agricultural productivity of around 29% from 1995 to 2017.
Keywords: Productivity; Licit and illicit agriculture; Crop yields; Conflict; Violence