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Shifting cultivation and forest pressure in Cameroon
Ickowitz, Amy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
dramatic conclusion that shifting cultivators are causing deforestation in the forested region of Cameroon. …Shifting cultivation is often blamed as a principal cause of deforestation in tropical Africa. It is claimed that the … support two of these claims in southern Cameroon. First, using both cross-sectional and panel data, I find that there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113395
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Dryland Agriculture: Dynamics, Challenges and Priorities
Bantilan, MCS; Anand Babu, P; Anupama, GV; Deepthi, H; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The developments in the dryland region reflect the pervasiveness of poverty, which is demonstrated by the growing constraints of water, land degradation, continuing concerns about malnutrition, migration due to frequent droughts, lack of infrastructure, poor dissemination of improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087511
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Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analysis of mechanisms of governance of agro-ecosystem services. Firstly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025716
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Mechanisms of Governance of Sustainable Development
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analyzing the mechanisms of governance of sustainable development. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961514
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Framework for Analisis and Improvement of Agrarian Dynamics
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analyzing and improvement of governance of socio-economics dynamic of agriculture....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587477
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The Impact of Climate Change on the Profitability of Site Specific Technologies
Finger, Robert; Gerwig, Claude N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Site Specific Technologies (SST) can reduce environmental pollution caused by common agricultural practice. Using a case study for corn yields, we investigate the impact of climate change (CC) on profitability of SSTs. We find CC to increase spatial variability of soils with respect to optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623303
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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837294
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Strategic Decision-Making: Adoption of Agricultural Technologies and Risk in a Peasant Economy
Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Descriptive and logit analysis were employed to investigate the impact of social, economic and technical factors on decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies in the Ada and Selale districts of Ethiopia. Peasants follow sequential adoption of technologies. In both study areas, priority is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619927
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Report on the socio-economic impact of Natural Rubber cultivation under the block planting scheme in Tripura
Joseph, Joby; George K., Tharian; S.K, Dey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study is a pioneering attempt to assess the socio-economic impact of the Block Planting Scheme (BPS) from the angle of the beneficiaries,implementing agencies and the policymakers.The report is based on the primary information gathered from 480 households drawn from Block Planting Units with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108243
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Small farmers, NGOs, and a Walmart World: Welfare effects of supermarkets operating in Nicaragua
Michelson, Hope C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Despite more than a decade of NGO and government activities promoting developing world farmer participation in high-value agricultural markets, evidence regarding the household welfare effects of such initiatives is limited. This paper analyzes the geographic placement of supermarket supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110038