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Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Viet Nam
Abman, Ryan; Carney, Conor - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We … combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study … deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894307
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REDD+ as performance-based aid : general lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway
Angelsen, Arild - 2013
REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. REDD+ has since become multi-objective; the policy focus has changed from payments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210658
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Faraway, so close: the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on political violence in Asian countries
Di Maio, Michele; Justino, Patricia; Sciabolazza, … - 2024
We show that the Russia-Ukraine-war-induced changes in the international price of wheat affected political violence in Asia. Using data from 13 countries and more than four million cell-level observations, we show that a higher wheat price increases political violence in areas that are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014530218
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The impact of the 2007-08 food price crisis in a major commodity exporter : food prices, inflation, and inclusion in Brazil
Mueller, Bernardo; Mueller, Charles Curt - 2012
This paper argues that the effects of the food price crisis of 2007-08 put pressure on two variables that are of central importance to the Brazilian government: inflation and social inclusion. We describe how political institutions in Brazil in the past 25 years have given rise to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667943
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Could free trade alleviate effects of climate change? : a worldwide analysis with emphasis on Morocco and Turkey
Ouraich, Ismail; Dudu, Hasan; Tyner, Wallace E.; … - 2014
This paper examines the interaction of globalization through trade liberalization and climate change, globally with a special focus on Morocco and Turkey. We use the GTAP model, which is a global general equilibrium model, to investigate trade liberalization welfare impacts under climate change,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381372
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Agro-processing, value chains, and regional integration in Southern Africa
Black, Anthony H.; Edwards, Lawrence; Gorven, Ruth; … - 2020
Regional integration in Africa is underway but ongoing progress requires that the gains are widely spread. South Africa's huge regional trade surplus in manufactured goods is already leading to protectionist pressures in neighbouring countries. Agro-processing is a large sector, which is widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183599
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Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa : pilot evidence from Rwanda
Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus W.; Goldstein, … - 2011
Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009377240
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Land acquisition for industrialization and compensation of displaced farmers
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2011
This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a landlord, either a private owner or a local government. There are three sets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009159746
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The effects of rural land right security on labour structural transformation and urbanization : evidence from Thailand
Chankrajang, Thanyaporn - 2012
This paper attempts to contribute to the understanding of the impacts of secure rural agricultural land rights on labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on Thailand. Using province-level panel data and instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530934
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Local transformation in rural Vietnam : a commune level analysis
Beck, Ulrik - 2015
This study documents the local transformation of rural Vietnamese communes in 12 different provinces from 2006 to 2014. Three key areas are considered, namely occupational and agricultural choice; provision of public goods and infrastructure as well as land markets. While many areas showed great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317153