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Does Land Use Patterns Matter for Bt-Maize: The Case of Maize Farming System in Kenya

Muhammad, Lutta; Owuor, George; De Groote, Hugo; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Population pressures and the need to optimize the use of limited available land has led to increasing cropping affluence levels within the maize agro-ecologies in Kenya, and a shift from large to smallholder intensification and multiple cropping patterns. Using a geographic information system,...

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From Pasture Land to Farm Plots, Triggers and Motivations for Land Use Changes in Afar, Ethiopia

Kotu, Bekele Hundie - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Communal land use system has existed in pastoral Afar (as in many other pastoral areas) since time of immemorial accommodating the interests of different user groups. This form of land use system, which has adapted to the harsh environment in which herders raise their livestock, enables...

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Farm size and Distance-to-Field in Scattered Rice Field Areas:with Integration of Plot and Farm Data

Yagi, Hironori - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

An empirical bid-rent model is applied with a multinomial logit (MNL) for analyses of rice production in Japan, which is characterized by cultivation by producers working with various farm sizes. By combining plot and farm databases, the distances to respective field plots from potential holders...

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Bioenergy and Land Use Change

Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, d'Artis; Rajcaniova, Miroslava - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

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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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Determinants of Land Use in the Densely Populated Kigezi Highlands of Southwestern Uganda

Bamwerinde, W.; Bashaasha, Bernard; Ssembajjwe, W.; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

We use a multinominal logit model to examine the determinants of plot abandonment (unintentional fallows) and long fallows (intentional fallows) in order to propose policy interventions that lead to optimal and sustainable management of land use systems in Kigezi highlands. Household factors...

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Structural Agricultural Land Use Modelling

Fezzi, Carlo; Bateman, Ian J. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

This paper develops a structural econometric model of agricultural land use and production based on the joint multi-output technology representation introduced by Chambers and Just (1989). Starting from a flexible specification of the farm profit function we derive land use allocation, input...

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Producing and Procuring Horticultural Crops with Chinese Characteristics: Why Small Farmers Are Thriving and Supermarkets Are Absent in Rural China

Wang, Honglin; Dong, Xiaoxia; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

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An Exploratory Assessment of the Economic Impact of Forage Options for Beef Production on Smallholder Farms in the Red Soils Region of China

MacLeod, Neil D.; Wen, Shilin; Hu, Mingwen - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The rapidly growing beef cattle herd of the Peoples Republic of China is largely carried as small numbers of animals on … south-central China. An economic model and a synthetic case example of a smallholder farm enterprise are used to briefly …

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The Role of Infrastructure Capital in China’s Regional Economic Growth

Shi, Yingying - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper investigates the role of infrastructure capital in China’s regional economic development during 1990 to 2009 … land-line telephone. The results support a positive role of infrastructure in improving economic wellbeing in China. It … shows that infrastructure has contributed to the convergence among China’s provinces. However, declining growth momentum …

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