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Frederik Noack
Frederik Noack is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Food and Resource Economics Program at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the interaction of economic development and the environment. Specifically, he is interested in how improved market access and property rights affect rural welfare and natural resources such as forests, fish stocks, and biodiversity.
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Internal migration and spatial reorganisation of agriculture
While migrants and their urban destinations are extensively studied, less is known about how their departure transforms the rural economies they leave behind. Analysing Indian data, this article shows that migrant-sending households near cities reduce farm size and investment rather than replacing workers with capital. On the other hand, non-migrant, remote households expand production in response to falling land prices and rising crop prices
