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Property rights and natural resource conservation: a bio-economic model with numerical illustrations from the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003This paper examines under what conditions a community based management system results in higher wildlife abundance and more conservation.DocumentHIV/AIDS and agriculture: impacts and responses: case studies from Namibia, Uganda and Zambia
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003How can countries support increasing numbers of vulnerable households? What can be done to reverse the trend towards increasing destitution?DocumentThe Mepanda Unkua Project: a planned regulation of the Zambezi River in Mozambique
Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2003This report examines the potential social and environmental consequences of the proposed Mepanda Unkua Project, a large scale dam planned on the Zambezi River in the Province of Tete in Mozambique.DocumentTechnical efficiency in the spice based agroforestry sector in Matale, Sri Lanka
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004This paper looks at factors affecting the efficiency of the spice based agroforestry sector. The technical efficiency of spice based agroforestry systems was estimated in order to identify the potential increase in production without incurring additional costs for farm inputs.DocumentPoverty, institutions, peasant band conservation investment in Northern Ethiopia
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003This PhD thesis provides an econometric analysis of various aspects of the rural economy in Northern Ethiopia.The thesis consists of five papers:an in-depth analysis of poverty, its distribution, dynamics and its correlates within the framework of the role of economic reforms on poverty reduction in a remote, unstable and environmentally troubled regionlooks at the issue of the effiDocumentCash, crops and cattle: a study of rural livelihoods in Botswana
Hedmark University College, Norway, 2001DocumentA social and environmental accounting analysis: an extended village SAM for household-farms in Ethiopia
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2000DocumentMaize trade liberalization vs. fertilizer subsidies in Tanzania: a CGE model analysis with endogenous soil fertility
Statistics Norway, 1999DocumentLand tenure in the Highlands of Eritrea: economic theory and empirical evidence
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003This PhD study focuses on the land tenure systems in the highlands of Eritrea with a particular emphasis on land rental markets, land contract choice, and on the implications of land tenure systems for farm household’s resource allocation behaviour and efficiency outcomes.The author hopes that the theoretical and empirical analysis of these issues will also contribute to the debate on land tenu