This paper provides a numerical general equilibrium assessment of forestry policies aimed at the reduction of tropical deforestation in Cameroon. Four different policy measures are distinguished, namely the provision of more secure timber concessions, a rise in the minimum size of trees that can...

Based on household survey data, this paper investigates the impact on coffee and non-coffee households of the pronounced coffee price fluctuations in Uganda during the 1990s. As expected, the price boom of the early 1990s was associated with substantial poverty reduction for coffee farmers. More...

This paper deals with the question of how responsive farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are to changes in incentives. Employing Johansen's multivariate cointegration approach and covering the period 1965-99, it investigates for ten selected SSA countries the long-run effect of pricing...