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Assessing management options for weed control with demanders and non-demanders in a choice experiment

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

The yellow floating heart is a water weed causing nuisance problems in Swedish watercourses. An economic analysis of this is required where various management options are considered. The benefits of a management program are to a large extent recreational. Using a choice experiment we estimate...

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Multifunctionality of agriculture: An inquiry into the complementarity between landscape preservation and food security

Brunstad, Rolf Jens; Gaasland, Ivar; Vårdal, Erling - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2005

Without support, the levels of agricultural public goods will fall short of the demand in high cost countries like Norway, Finland and Iceland. However, as demonstrated in this paper using Norway as a case, the current support and agricultural activity is far out of proportions from a public...

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Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology Matter?

Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious; Pender, John; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Sustainable agricultural practices, in as far as they rely on renewable local or farm resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. In this paper, we used two sets of plot-level data—from a low-rainfall...

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Market Imperfections and Farm Technology Adoption Decisions - A Case Study from the Highlands of Ethiopia

Yesuf, Mahmud; Köhlin, Gunnar - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper investigates the impacts of market and institutional imperfections on technology adoption in a model that … adopts soil conservation. The reverse causality, however, was insignificant. We also found that outcomes of market … factors in explaining variations in farm technology adoption decisions. Relieving the existing market imperfections will most …

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Adoption of Organic Farming Technologies: Evidence from Semi-Arid Regions of Ethiopia

Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious; Manjur, Kebede; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

In the wake of resource constraints faced by farmers in developing countries in using external farm inputs, sustainable agricultural production practices that rely on local or farm renewable resources present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity. In this paper we use...

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Organic Farming Technologies and Agricultural Productivity: The case of Semi-Arid Ethiopia

Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious; Pender, John; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Organic farming practices, in as far as they rely on local or farm renewable resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. In this paper we use plot-level data from semi-arid area of Ethiopia to investigate...

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Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Provision: Tale of Confused Objectives, Multiple Market Failures and Policy Challenges

Coria, Jessica; Robinson, Elizabeth; Smith, Henrik G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend seems to be changing due in part to the relative success of payment...

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Valuing Animal Genetic Resources: A Choice Modeling Application to Indigenous Cattle in Kenya

Ruto, Eric; Garrod, Guy; Scarpa, Riccardo - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2007

In an effort to improve productivity and profits many farmers have replaced traditional livestock breeds with higher yielding alternatives. While such changes may bring about short-term economic gains, the loss of traditional livestock breeds could result in the loss of an important genetic...

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Bio-economics of Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Developing Countries

Akpalu, Wisdom; Anders, Ekbom - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Improvement in soil carbon through conservation agriculture in developing countries may generate some private benefits …

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Compliance and Imperfect Intertemporal Carbon Trading

Godal, Odd; Klaassen, Ger - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2003

assumptions about the competitiveness of the permit market and US participation. The analytical results indicate that the …

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