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Intégrer l'agriculture dans les politiques d'atténuation chinoises
Wang, Wen - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015
This thesis is an evaluation of the overall technical and economic mitigation potential in China agriculture and the … above a notional baseline level. An analysis of Chinese climate policies reveals that agriculture is nearly absent in the … integrating agriculture into domestic mitigation policies. In the first place, the emissions trends and calculation methods are …
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L'après-crise, une troisième « fin des terroirs » ?
Maclouf, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 1985
As we get ready to emerge from the current crisis, one wonders whether there will still be room for such concepts as « local » and « rural ». They were very present during the seventies when softer type of growth was aimed at. A quick leap foreward under the ideology of modernization is now...
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Volatility returns with vengeance: Financial markets vs. commodities
Aboura, Sofiane; Chevallier, Julien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015
To assess how financial markets and commodities are inter-related, this paper introduces a ‘volatility surprise’ component into the asymmetric DCC with one exogenous variable (ADCCX) framework. We develop an econometric model in which returns and volatility allow to influence pairs of...
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Réforme agraire et démagogie électorale au Zimbabwe
Cling, Jean-Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2001
Twenty years after Independence, the land question is still an urgent unresolved issue in Zimbabwe. The government launched the land reform after 1980 and led an active policy in favour of the rural areas. But the land reform programme slowed down considerably in the second half of the eighties,...
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Reducing deforestation and forest degradation: leakage or synergy?
Angelsen, Arild; Delacote, Philippe - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
Agricultural expansion is the main deforestation driver, while forest degradation is due to non-sustainable poaching and harvesting of forest products. Policies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) thus focus on agricultural expansion and illegal harvesting. The...
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Sustainability of the Dry Forest in Androy: A Viability Analysis
Zaccour, Georges; Smala Fanokoa, Pascaux; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
society whose subsistence relies on the slash-and-burn farming agriculture (hatsake) and the burning of cacti which are given …
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Policies for Sustainable Development: The Commercialization of Smallholder Agriculture
Zeller, Manfred; Ufer, Susanne; Nielsen, Thea; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
related policies, this chapter looks at the commercialization of smallholder agriculture and, in particular, the need to … have from largely subsistence-oriented to market-oriented agriculture. This development began in Thailand earlier than in … Vietnam, but during the 2000s, smallholder agriculture in Vietnam also commercialized at a rapid rate, leading to an increase …
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Land allocation policy and conservat ion practices in the mountains of Northern Vietnam
Saint-Macary, Camille; Keil, Alwin; Zeller, Manfred - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
In Vietnam, a quasi-private property regime has been established in 1993, with the issuance exchangeable and mortgageable land use right certificates. Using primary qualitative and quantitative data, this paper investigates the role of the titling policy in fostering the use of soil conservation...
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Soil Conservation on Sloping Land: Technical Options and Adoption Constraints
Hilger, Thomas; Keil, Alwin; Lippe, Melvin; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
This chapter briefly summarizes the causes and consequences of soil erosion, before presenting examples of effective soil conservation technologies (SCT), such as contour-based cropping, cover crops, mulching and geo-textiles, and based on case studies from northern Thailand and northern...
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Les agriculteurs et leur patrimoine : des indépendants comme les autres ?
Bessière, Céline; De Paoli, Caroline; Gouraud, Bénédicte - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Les travailleurs indépendants échappent à la plupart des études sur la stratification sociale. L'étude de leur patrimoine est une voie possible pour progresser dans la connaissance de leur position sociale. En effet, la plupart des indépendants exploitent eux-mêmes un patrimoine...
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