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Protection and profit : empirical evidence of governmental and market-based forest policies
Herzberg, Julika - 2019
discontinuity environment, I find an increase in deforestation of an annual area of 8,057 ha in FSC forests after the certification …. Public sustainability zones' impact on deforestation is also positive but declines over time. The effectiveness of both type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959731
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Central and East European Agriculture in Integrating Europe
Lukas, Zdenek; Mládek, Jan - 2006
After the EU enlargement of May 2004, the exchange of agro-food goods between the EU 15 and the new member states (NMS) has accelerated considerably. In particular the expansion of Polish exports in 2005 resulted in the highest surplus registered by the NMS 4 (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100065
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Study of Cost Benefit Analysis of Managing Bt. Cotton Farming with Special Reference to Vidarbha
Timane, Rajesh - 2013
About forty lakh hectare of land is under cotton cultivation in Maharashtra. Once known as the prosperous cotton-belt; today the irony is that the state tops the list when it comes to suicides by farmers. Further, almost all of them are cotton farmers mostly from Vidarbha. At present, Vidarbha...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086608
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Achieving environmental sustainability in Myanmar
Raitzer, David A.; Samson, Jindra Nuella G.; Nam, Kee-yung - 2015
degradation is rising rapidly. Deforestation of closed forests in recent years has taken place at the fastest rate among major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401158
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Losing territory : the effect of administrative splits on land use in the tropics
Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2023
villages, we analyze the effects of 115 district splits between 2002 and 2014. Results show a 35% deforestation decline within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442320
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Tree Cover Loss in El Salvador's Shade Coffee Areas
Blackman, Allen; Ávalos Sartorio, Beatriz; Chow, Jeffrey - 2007
Shade coffee farms in Central America provide important ecological services. But because international coffee prices have fallen since 1990, many have been cleared to make way for more remunerative land uses. This problem is of particular concern in heavily deforested El Salvador, where a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138467
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How to feed the world in 2050: Macroeconomic environment, commodity markets - A longer temr outlook
van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique; Osorio Rodarte, Israel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The recent commodity boom was the longest and broadest of the post-World War II period. Although most prices have declined sharply since their mid-2008 peak, they are still considerably higher than 2003, the beginning of the boom. Apart from strong and sustained economic growth, the recent boom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458517
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Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Viet Nam
Abman, Ryan; Carney, Conor - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We … combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study … deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943895
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Losing territory: The effect of administrative splits on land use in the tropics
Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2023
villages, we analyze the effects of 115 district splits between 2002 and 2014. Results show a 35% deforestation decline within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549332
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Achieving Environmental Sustainability in Myanmar
Raitzer, David A.; Samson, Jindra Nuella G.; Nam, Kee-Yung - 2015
degradation is rising rapidly. Deforestation of closed forests in recent years has taken place at the fastest rate among major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432888