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The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
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This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the local natural-resource base, a subject that has been much neglected by modern demographers and development economists. The motivations for procreation in rural communities of the...
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Providing technical advice to low income households at scale poses operational challenges, typically with respect to identifying and training a sufficiently large staff. Technology can help deliver messages more broadly, but at the risk of reducing their efficacy as customized messaging and...
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This paper empirically examines the emergence and functioning of land markets and their impacts on deforestation in … Sumatra, Indonesia. While the evolution of land markets is ex-pected to promote deforestation activities by rural households … from forest encroachment. Sec-ond, the emergence of speculative land markets, which could accel-erate deforestation, is …
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Increasing food demand will most likely be met with agricultural intensification and land clearing, exacerbating environmental consequences associated with food supply. The mechanisms and trade-offs between agriculture and the environment are heterogeneous and not well understood, yet key to...
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In this paper we examine gender differences in cocoa production in Cameroon using a survey of about 1000 cocoa … producers in Southern Cameroon. We find that women farmers have access to land (of similar size to men), but through different … women farmers are a reality in Cameroon that need equal access to inputs and technologies, and support. If given equal …
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development – prior roads and prior deforestation – and, further, in a pattern that suggests a potential synergy for roads between … low prior roads and deforestation. For each setting, census-tract observations are numerous. Results confirm predictions …
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prior development - both prior roads and prior deforestation - and in a spatial pattern suggesting a synergy between forests …, medium and low prior roads and deforestation. Census-tract observations are numerous for each setting and reveal a pattern …
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prior development - both prior roads and prior deforestation - and in a spatial pattern suggesting a synergy between forests …, medium and low prior roads and deforestation. Census-tract observations are numerous for each setting and reveal a pattern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731830