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Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Brazil

Gurgel, Angelo Costa - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

, including actions to cut emissions from deforestation and agricultural production. We employ a dynamic-recursive general … equilibrium model of the world economy. The main results show that deforestation emissions in Brazil can be reduced at very low … carbon taxes on agricultural production indirectly reduce deforestation rates. However, directly cutting emissions from …

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Poverty and Tropical Deforestation by Smallholders in Forest Margin Areas: Evidence from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Reetz, Sunny W.H.; Schwarze, Stefan; Bruemmer, Bernhard - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

The negative impacts of climate change have made poverty and deforestation topics of heightened interest within global … community discussions in recent years. Our study contributes to the debate over the links between poverty and deforestation by … there is a non-linear relationship between SWB, as well as other poverty proxies, and deforestation. We found that objective …

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Impacts of Paving Roads for Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Deforestation and Biological Carbon Loss

Li, Man; De Pinto, Alessandro; Ulimwengu, John M.; You, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper develops an econometric model to explore the determinants of land use choices for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The model is not just capable of representing land use choices using large aggregation categories, but it also allocates agricultural area to the country relevant...

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Economic Incentives for Entry and Exit in Gum Arabic Agroforestry System in Sudan

Rahim, Afaf H.; Ierland, Ekko C. van; Wesseler, Justus - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

the dry period and land is abundant, there are low incentives for deforestation. Instead, farmers' tend to leave the land …

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Need, Greed or Customary Rights - Which Factors Explain the Encroachment of Protected Areas? Empirical Evidence from a Protected Area in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Birner, Regina; Maertens, Miet; Zeller, Manfred - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The encroachment of protected areas for agricultural and livestock production is an important challenge for nature conservation in developing countries. The driving forces of encroachment are debated - major arguments focus on (1) the need of local people to cultivate land inside protected areas...

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The Role of Agriculture in Reducing Poverty in Tanzania: A Household Perspective from Rural Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma

Sarris, Alexander H.; Savastano, Sara; Christiaensen, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

This paper explores how farm productivity affects poverty, and how various factor market constraints affect farm productivity. The empirical analysis draws on representative surveys of farm households in Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash crop growing regions in Tanzania. We find that poorer...

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WHY DOES POVERTY PERSIST IN RURAL ETHIOPIA?

Bogale, Ayalneh; Hagedorn, Konrad; Korf, Benedikt - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2003

This paper seeks to address the question: why does poverty persist in rural Ethiopia? We argue that it is largely a lack of entitlements to fundamental livelihood assets which urges poor rural farmers into livelihood diversification to make a living. We base our findings on empirical work, which...

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Agriculture, Income Risks and Rural Poverty Dynamics: Strategies of Smallholder Producers in Kenya

Kuyiah, Joanne Wasswa; Obare, Gideon A.; Herrero, Mario; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Poverty in Kenya has been on the increase over the last decade. It is estimated that 56% of the total population live in absolute poverty. Most of the poor reside in rural areas where agriculture is the main livelihood activity. Majority of Kenya's farmers are smallholders. They account for 75%...

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Analysis of poverty and its covariates among smallholder farmers in the eastern Hararghe highlands of Ethiopia

Bogale, Ayalneh; Korf, Benedikt - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

This paper analyses the extent and determinants of rural household poverty in the eastern highlands of Ethiopia. We study 216 households using a household consumption expenditure approach. We are particularly interested in the effects of location-specific and institutional factors (networks) in...

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Assessing the potential for synergy in the implementation of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) programs: an empirical analysis in Costa Rica

Zhang, Wei; Pagiola, Stefano - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Payment for environmental services (PES) is a promising mechanism for conservation. It also has the potential to contribute to social objectives such as poverty reduction. To promote synergy in the implementation of PES, however, a number of conditions on spatial, economic, ecological, and...

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