The results of one study in central Honduras are used to examine some of the hypotheses presented. In general, however, the impacts of population pressure were found to be relatively small and other factors, including infrastructure development and technical assistance programs, had stronger impacts on agricultural change and natural resource management. Although induced innovation theory argues that population pressure may induce such policy responses, we found that these interventions were more likely in less-densely populated communities. This emphasizes that such induced policy responses to population pressure do not happen automatically. Download full-text discussion paper .
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