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Effect of Diversity of Large Wildlife Species on Financial Benefits to Local Communities in Northwest Namibia
Naidoo, Robin; Stuart-Hill, Greg; Weaver, L.; Tagg, Jo; … - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 48 (2011) 2, pp. 321-335
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Chapter 73 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth
Gollin, Douglas - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3825-3866). 2010
In most poor countries, large majorities of the population live in rural areas and earn their livelihoods primarily from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a...
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Land deals in Africa: pioneers and speculators
Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Much African land currently has low productivity and has attracted investors purchasing (or leasing) land as a speculative option on higher future prices or productivity. If land deals are to be beneficial they need to induce productivity enhancing investments. Some of these will be publicly...
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Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth
Gollin, Douglas - In: Handbook of Agricultural Economics
In most poor countries, large majorities of the population live in rural areas and earn their livelihoods primarily from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642967
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD
Alston, Lee J.; Andersson, Krister - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Understanding and minimizing the transaction costs of policy implementation are critical for reducing tropical forest losses. As the international community prepares to launch REDD+, a global initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, policymakers need to pay...
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Is poverty in the African DNA (Gene)?
Asongu, Simplice; Tedika, Oasis Kodila - In: The South African journal of economics 85 (2017) 4, pp. 533-552
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Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
Nunn, Nathan; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
effect on income. However, in Africa rugged terrain afforded protection to those being raided by slave traders. Since the … slave trade retarded subsequent economic development, in Africa ruggedness also has had a historical indirect positive … Africa the indirect positive effect dominates the direct negative effect. Looking within Africa, we provide evidence that the …
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Biodiversity conservation through private initiative : the case of Earth Sanctuaries Ltd
Grolleau, Gilles; Peterson, Deborah C. - In: European journal of law and economics 40 (2015) 2, pp. 293-312
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Linking human destruction of nature to COVID-19 increases support for wildlife conservation policies
Shreedhar, Ganga; Mourato, Susana - In: Environmental and resource economics 76 (2020) 4, pp. 963-999
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Wildlife in human spaces : bringing naturalization and landscape-scale conservation into the sustainable organization
Cuckston, Thomas - In: Handbook of accounting in society, (pp. 400-414). 2024
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