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Author: Stephen A. Vosti
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0896291324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen A. Vosti
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0896291324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2008-06-17
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0821374338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolicies promoting pro-poor agricultural growth are the key to helping countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals especially the goal of halving poverty and hunger by 2015. The public sector, private sector, and civil society organizations are working to enhance productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural sector to reduce rural poverty and sustain the natural resource base. The pathways involve participation by rural communities, science and technology, knowledge generation and further learning, capacity enhancement, and institution building. Sustainable land management (SLM) an essential component of such policies will help to ensure the productivity of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and hydrology. SLM will also support a range of ecosystem services on which agriculture depends. The 'Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook' provides a knowledge repository of tested practices and innovative resource management approaches that are currently being tested. The diverse menu of options represents the current state of the art of good land management practices. Section one identifies the need and scope for SLM and food production in relation to cross-sector issues such as freshwater and forest resources, regional climate and air quality, and interactions with biodiversity conservation and increasingly valuable ecosystem services. Section two categorizes the diversity of land management systems globally and the strategies for improving household livelihoods in each system type. Section three presents a range of investment notes that summarize good practice, as well as innovative activity profiles that highlight design of successful or innovative investments. Section four identifies easy-to-access, Web-based resources relevant for land and natural resource managers. The 'Sourcebook' is a living document that will be periodically updated and expanded as new material and findings become available on good land management practices. This book will be of interest to project managers and practitioners working to enhance land and natural resource management in developing countries.
Author: Andrea Cattaneo
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 0896291308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole.It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals.
Author: Stein Terje Holden
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 0896291456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolicymakers and technology development institutions have mostly focused on high-potential farming areas, which have better resource endowments and greater access to markets and infrastructure than less-favored areas. However, in developing nations more than one billion people live in less-favored areas, where, despite disadvantages, appropriate policies and programs can generate high returns and contribute significantly to poverty reduction. IFPRI and its partners' research in the highlands of Ethiopia shows how poverty and land degradation can be reduced in a less-favored area. Using a bioeconomic model to analyze the effects that land degradation, population growth, stagnant technology, market imperfections, and increased risk of drought have on household production, welfare, and food security, the report gauges how alternative policy choices affect poverty and land degradation. According to the study, land quality and household welfare are both in peril in the Ethiopian highlands.The population in the region could suffer devastating effects if proper policies are not put in place. The bioeconomic modeling approach used in this study can be usefully adapted and applied in many other settings and at larger spatial and socioeconomic scales.
Author: Arild Angelsen
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2001-04-20
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780851998992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has been developed from a workshop on Technological change in agriculture and tropical deforestation organised by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation using case studies from different geographical regions, using different agricultural products and technologies and in differing demographic situations and market conditions. Guidance is also given on future agricultural research and extension efforts.
Author: Ephraim Nkonya
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0896291367
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Author: Arisbe Mendoza Escalante
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 3865374581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jody Emel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1317816404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLivestock production worldwide is increasing rapidly, in part due to economic growth and demand for meat in industrializing countries. Yet there are many concerns about the sustainability of increased meat production and consumption, from perspectives including human health, animal welfare, climate change and environmental pollution. This book tackles the key issues of contemporary meat production and consumption through a lens of political ecology, which emphasizes the power relations producing particular social, economic and cultural interactions with non-human nature. Three main topics are addressed: the political ecology of global livestock production trends; changes in production systems around the world and their implications for environmental justice; and existing and emerging governance strategies for meat production and consumption systems and their implications. Case studies of different systems at varying scales are included, drawn from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe. The book includes an editorial introduction to set the context and synthesize key messages for the reader.
