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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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The Safety-net Use of Non Timber Forest Products
Delacote, Philippe - Laboratoire d'Économie Forestière, Département … - 2008
aim of this paper is to derive the implications of this insurance use on the forest cover, and thus on deforestation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005466655
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The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Program
Alix-Garcia, Jennifer; McIntosh, Craig; Sims, Katharine … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 417-435
deforestation and use the program's initial randomized rollout to explore household responses. We find that additional income raises … consumption of land-intensive goods and increases deforestation. The observed production response and deforestation increase are …
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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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Determinants of Farmers Participation in Off-Farm Employment: A Case Study in Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia
ABDUL-HAKIM, Roslan; CHE-MAT, Siti Hadijah - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and rural Development 1 (2011) 2, pp. 27-37
This paper investigates the determinants of agricultural households’ participation in off-farm employment. Towards this end, a logit model is employed to identify factors that determine the participation in off-farm employment. Here, determinants of participation in off-farm employment are...
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