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  Land and environmental degradation and desertification in Africa

  FAO Hypermedia Collection on Desertification, 1995
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  Land degradation in south Asia: Its severity, causes and effects upon the people

  FAO Hypermedia Collection on Desertification, 1994

  The report focuses on: the statue of land degradation: types of degradation, their nature, severity and extent; the causes and consequences of land degradation; institutions to combat land degradation; proposals for strengthening efforts to combat land degradation. Countries covered are: Afghanistan; Bangladesh; India; Bhutan; Iran; Pakistan; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
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  Economic Instruments for Water Pollution

  1997

  The issues associated with economic instruments are complex and the main paper contains a detailed, technical discussion. This summary highlights some of the main points from that discussion.
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  Land degradation, stocking rates and conservation policies in the communal rangelands of Botswana and Zimbabwe

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1990

  This article suggests that communual rangeland management policies in Botswana and Zimbabwe are based on incorrect technical assumptions about the stability of semiarid rangelands, the nature of rangeland degradation, and the benefits of destocking.
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  How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity: a General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1996

  The subject of this article is the alleged inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in developing countries. The recent controversy is reviewed, and a framework is provided to explain the inverse relationship based on plausible assumptions about imperfections in the markets for labor, credit and land. On this basis testable hypotheses are derived.
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  Integrating peasant knowledge and geographic information systems : a spatial approach to sustainable agriculture

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997

  Starting with a discussion of the scientific versus the traditional methods of land evaluation and perception, the authors formulate a methodological framework to integrate both perspectives into a geographic-information/expert-system environment aimed at sustainable development of a rural community, and present a case study in Central Mexico.
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  The economic role of cattle in communal farming systems in Zimbabwe

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1992

  This paper is concerned with understanding cattle production in Zimbabwe's Communal Lands, in so-called communal farming systems. Although commercial offtake from Zimbabwe's communal cattle herd is low, communal farmers are productive and rational in their cattle herd management.
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  Paradigm Case Illustrations of Incremental Cost Analysis

  Program for Measuring Incremental Costs for the Evironment, GEF, 1999

  The application of the incremental cost assessment to biodiversity has always been uncertain. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the concept is a workable one in biodiversity. This paper has a twofold aim:1. to make explicit the strategic and logical approach to incremental cost assessment- to demonstrate that it is replicable and applicable to all GEF projects2.
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  Logs or Local Livelihood?: The Case for Legalizing Community Control of Forest Lands in Ratanakiri, Cambodia

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1997

  A recent eighteen-month economic study of the benefits of alternative uses of forest and in Ratanakiri province recommends the exclusion of customary forest land from current and future commercial concessions.
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  Environmental Problems in Southeast Asia: Property Regimes as Cause and Solution

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1997

  Brief paper on the role of property rights in the economic analysis of environmental problems in Southeast Asia. First talks about the causal role of property rights in the existence of environmental problems, then how property rights must be incorporated into the economic analyses of these problems.

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