Search Results - subject:"Soil and Water conservation"

Understanding Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Techniques: The role of new owners

Oostendorp, Remco H.; Zaal, Fred - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2011

This paper analyzes the adoption behavior of small holder farmers using comparable plot-level duration data for Kenya and The Philippines. We find that adoption behavior is strongly linked to the process of land ownership transfer. This relationship is found both for data from Kenya and The...

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Incentives for Soil and Water Conservation on Farm in Ravines of Gujarat: Policy Implications for Future Adoption

Pande, V.C.; Kurothe, R.S.; Singh, H.B.; Tiwari, S.P. - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 24 (2011) 1

The issue of incentives has been studied for the adoption of soil and water conservation in the ravines of Gujarat in …

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Nudging Boserup? The impact of fertilizer subsidies on investment in soil and water conservation

Vondolia, Godwin K. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

of soil and water conservation efforts in Ghana. The results indicate that beneficiaries of the studied fertilizer … subsidy programme do not invest significantly more in soil and water conservation, which advises against excessive reliance on … farmers to respond to fertilizer subsidies with substantial investment in soil and water conservation. Thus, in order to …

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Does land tenure security matter for investment in soil and water conservation? Evidence from Kenya

Kabubo-Mariara, Jane; Linderhof, Vincent; Kruseman, Gideon - In: African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 04 (2010) 2

This paper investigates the impact of tenure security and other factors on investment in soil and water conservation …

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Does land tenure security matter for investment in soil and water conservation? Evidence from Kenya

Kabubo-Mariara, Jane; Linderhof, Vincent; Kruseman, Gideon - In: Journal of Cooperatives 04 (2010) 2

This paper investigates the impact of tenure security and other factors on investment in soil and water conservation …

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Soil and water conservation technologies: A buffer against production risk in the face of climate change?: Insights from the Nile Basin in Ethiopia

Kato, Edward; Ringler, Claudia; Yesuf, Mahmud; Bryan, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"This study investigates the impact of different soil and water conservation technologies on the variance of crop …-level factors. Results show that soil and water conservation investments perform differently in different rainfall areas and regions …. Results show that soil and water conservation technologies have significant impacts on reducing production risk in Ethiopia …

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How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: Are soil and water conservation technologies a buffer against production risk in the face of climate change?:

Kato, Edward; Ringler, Claudia; Yesuf, Mahmud; Bryan, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

to economic growth and livelihoods across the country. Soil and water conservation technologies have been suggested as a … of Ethiopia, more than 30 percent of farmers adopted soil and water conservation measures in response to perceived long …-term changes in temperature and rainfall. Although soil and water conservation technologies are generally considered low-cost, they …

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Experimental Study on Slope Runoff, Erosion and Sediment under Different Vegetation Types

Zhang, Xia; Yu, Guo; Li, Zhan; Li, Peng - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 9, pp. 2415-2433

the mechanism of action. The soil and water conservation function of forest was water storage and sediment reduction by … and water conservation. The cumulative sediment yield of the slopes increased as a statistically significant power … structures of vegetation affected runoff and sediment regulation in different ways, and plant root systems were crucial for soil …

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Ecological Compensation Estimation of Soil and Water Conservation Based on Cost-Benefit Analysis

Sun, Lina; Lu, Wenxi; Yang, Qingchun; Martín, Jordi; Li, Di - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 8, pp. 2709-2727

Soil and water conservation ecological compensation can be simply defined as a monetary payment to offset the … information systems. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) method is applied to evaluate the function of soil and water conservation, of … great benefit to the implementation of soil and water conservation at a mesoscale catchment scale. Copyright Springer …

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Transition to Sustainable Tropical Land Management

Burger, Kees - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

Following the example of Tiffen et al. on Machakos, Kenya, new macro-based evidence was collected in Machakos, the neighbouring Kitui district and in Benin, Cameroon and the Philippines, to assess the factors à la Boserup, inducing transitions towards sustainable land management, such as...

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