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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en
Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003
This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First …, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation and … biodiversity loss is explored. Secondly, some underlying causes of deforestation are examined. While caution is needed about many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556109
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Achieving environmental sustainability in Myanmar
Raitzer, David A.; Samson, Jindra Nuella G.; Nam, Kee-yung - 2015
degradation is rising rapidly. Deforestation of closed forests in recent years has taken place at the fastest rate among major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401158
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Protection and profit : empirical evidence of governmental and market-based forest policies
Herzberg, Julika - 2019
discontinuity environment, I find an increase in deforestation of an annual area of 8,057 ha in FSC forests after the certification …. Public sustainability zones' impact on deforestation is also positive but declines over time. The effectiveness of both type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959731
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Losing territory : the effect of administrative splits on land use in the tropics
Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2023
villages, we analyze the effects of 115 district splits between 2002 and 2014. Results show a 35% deforestation decline within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442320
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Farm restructuring and agricultural recovery in Kazakhstan's grain region: An update
Petrick, Martin; Wandel, Jürgen; Karsten, Katharina - 2011
Against the rising global concern of how to achieve sustainable output expansion in food, we document the main outcomes of post-Soviet agricultural recovery and restructuring in the Kazakhstan grain region. Together with an expansion of cropland area and increasing capital input, real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306860
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Rural Reforms, Agricultural Productivity, and the Biological Standard of Living in South Korea, 1941-1974
Rudolf, Robert - 2012
This paper analyzes effects of the Republic of Korea's two major rural reforms in 1950 and 1962/63 on agricultural productivity and individual well-being. The 1950 Land Reform resulted in a large-scale redistribution of land while 'green revolution'-type reforms in 1962/63 pushed forward the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329982
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Climate Change and Crop Yields in Iran and Other OIC Countries
Mirjalili, Seyed Hossein; Motaghian Fard, Mahdis - In: International Journal of Business and Development Studies 11 (2019) 1, pp. 99-110
Climate change is the main phenomenon that directly affects the world environment, and changes in the environment affect economic sectors differently. The most important impacts of climate change would be on enhancing the average global temperature and the decrease in precipitation. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293236
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Rural reforms, agricultural productivity, and the biological standard of living in South Korea, 1941 - 1974
Rudolf, Robert - 2012
This paper analyzes effects of the Republic of Korea's two major rural reforms in 1950 and 1962/63 on agricultural productivity and individual well-being. The 1950 Land Reform resulted in a large-scale redistribution of land while "green revolution"-type reforms in 1962/63 pushed forward the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357142
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Are mega-farms the future of global agriculture? Exploring the farm size-productivity relationship for large commercial farms in Ukraine
Deininger, Klaus; Nizalov, Denys; Singh, Sudhir K - Kyiv School of Economics - 2013
With farms cultivating tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares, Ukraine is often used to demonstrate the existence of economies of scale in modern grain production. Panel data analysis for all the country’s farms with more than 200 hectares in 2001-2011 suggests that higher yields and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905832
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Farm restructuring and agricultural recovery in Kazakhstan's grain region: An update
Petrick, Martin; Wandel, Jürgen; Karsten, Katharina - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2011
Against the rising global concern of how to achieve sustainable output expansion in food, we document the main outcomes of post-Soviet agricultural recovery and restructuring in the Kazakhstan grain region. Together with an expansion of cropland area and increasing capital input, real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321526