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Resource Abundance, Poverty and Development

Bulte, Erwin H.; Damania, Richard; Deacon, Robert T. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

The negative correlation between resource endowments and GDP growth remains one of the most robust findings in the empirical growth literature, and has been coined the “resource curse hypothesis”. The policy consequences of this result are potentially far reaching. If natural resources are...

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Land Use Change, Carbon Sequestration and Poverty Alleviation

Lipper, Leslie; Cavatassi, Romina - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

Land use change is a key requirement for improving rural incomes and making a significant reduction in poverty levels globally. Over 70% of the world’s poor are located in rural areas, with land use as a major source of subsistence. Improving the productivity of their land use systems is...

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Determinants of Cereal Diversity in Communities and on Household Farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands

Benin, Samuel; Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Smale, Melinda; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

On farm conservation of crop diversity poses obvious policy challenges in terms of the design of appropriate incentive mechanisms and possible trade-offs between conservation and productivity. This paper compares factors explaining the inter-specific diversity (diversity among species) and...

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When are Payments for Environmental Services Beneficial to the Poor?

Zilberman, David; Lipper, Leslie; McCarthy, Nancy - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

The impact of payment for environmental services (PES) on poverty varies. Generally, PES is good for landowners and may negatively affect consumers if food demand is inelastic. Impacts also depend on the correlation between poverty and environmental amenities. If the richer farmers also provide...

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Less-Favoured Areas: Looking Beyond Agriculture Towards Ecosystem Services

Lipper, Leslie; Pingali, Prabhu; Zurek, Monika - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

classifying dryland production systems and devising a set of development strategies based on initial resource use endowments and … resulting land use. In this way policy options for dryland development are tied to the wider economic context within a country …. Policy strategies for dryland areas are discussed which take the varying starting points for development into account …

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Effects of Poverty on Deforestation: Distinguishing behaviour from location

Kerr, Suzi; Pfaff, Alexander; Cavatassi, Romina; Davis, … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

We summarize existing theoretical claims linking poverty to rates of deforestation and then examine this linkage empirically for Costa Rica during the 20th century using an econometric approach that addresses the irreversibilities in deforestation. Our data facilitate an empirical analysis of...

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Sowing the Seeds of Social Relations: The Role of Social Capital in Crop Diversity

Winters, Paul; Cavatassi, Romina; Lipper, Leslie - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

This paper explores the relationship between social capital and crop diversity. The study is conducted in an area of Ethiopia where inter-specific diversity is significant and that diversity includes crops that are of important in terms of their genetic value since it is a center of origin or...

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Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica

Kerr, Suzi; Lipper, Leslie; Pfaff, Alexander S.P.; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

We review claims about the potential for carbon markets that link both payments for carbon services and poverty levels to ongoing rates of tropical deforestation. We then examine these effects empirically for Costa Rica during the 20th century using an econometric approach that addresses the...

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Methods for the Assessment of Livestock Development Interventions in Smallholder Livestock Systems

Rushton, Jonathan - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

input from others working in this field will be important. Not only will further development work be required on the methods …

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The Politics of Livestock Sector Policy and the Rural Poor in Bolivia

Fairfield, Tasha - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

livelihoods in Bolivia through livestock policy are to be found in the camelid sector. Markets for camelid meat, fiber, and … public policies that could be implemented to foster pro-poor development is limited. The clearest role for the state lies in …

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