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Author : Gideon Kruseman
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Rural families
ISBN :
Author : Flichman, Guillermo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
DAHBSIM is a dynamic, bio-economic model of agricultural households that was designed to be applied to a rural, developing country-setting, for the purpose of addressing questions around the biophysical constraints to on-farm agricultural productivity, and the whole-farm implications of alternative strategies to sustainable agricultural intensification. The model links socio-economic and biophysical aspects, in order to better illustrate the environmental and human welfare implications of different agricultural production practices, as they are influenced by policy-driven changes in prices of inputs or outputs, or by changes in the physical environment.
Author : Jules N. Pretty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136529276
Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.
Author : Bekele Shiferaw
Publisher : CABI
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0851998283
Part I: Introduction; Part II: Valuation of ecosystem services and biophysical indicators of NRM impacts; Part III: Methodological advances for a comprehensive impact assessment; Part IV: NRM impact assessment in practice.
Author : Inderjit Singh
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Agricultural industries
ISBN :
This book presents the basic model of an agricultural household that underlies most of the case studies undertaken so far. The model assumes that households are price-takers and is therefore recursive. The decisions modeled include those affecting production and the demand for inputs and those affecting consumption and the supply of labor. Comparative results on selected elasticities are presented for a number of economies. The empirical significance of the approach is demonstrated in a comparison of models that treat production and consumption decisions separately and those in which the decisionmaking process is recursive. The book summarizes the implications of agricultural pricing policy for the welfare of farm households, marketed surplus, the demand for nonagricultural goods and services, the rural labor market, budget revenues, and foreign exchange earnings. In addition, it is shown that the basic model can be extended in order to explore the effects of government policy on crop composition, nutritional status, health, saving, and investment and to provide a more comprehensive analysis of the effects on budget revenues and foreign exchange earnings. Methodological topics, primarily the data requirements of the basic model and its extensions, along with aggregation, market interaction, uncertainty, and market imperfections are discussed. The most important methodological issues - the question of the recursive property of these models - is also discussed.
Author : Stephen A. Vosti
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0896291324
Research site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.
Author : D Deybe
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2002-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9782876145009
Author : Howard Barnum
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A model addressing agricultural responses to public interventions is described. The model is confined to the short run, and it allows an assessment of the policy significance of changes in five variables that are exogenous to the household. The first variable is the price of the main agricultural output, emphasizing the elasticities of both output and market surplus; the second is the wage rate for agricultural labor, focusing on the elasticities of household labor supply and demand for hired labor; the third is the size of the family labor force, which is essential for estimating shadow wage rates; the fourth is the number of dependents, in order to permit an assessment of family planning policies; and the final variable is technology. The main features of the model are the role of the labor market, household production, household consumption, and the aggregate effect of household responses. Applicaton of the model to the Muda River Valley demonstrates that it is appropriate to a number of policy isues ranging from output price intervention to technological innovaton. Specifically, the model indicates that the economic cost of rural to urban migration is small when compared to the marginal productivity of the migrant before his departure.
Author : J. Pender
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0896297578
Deforestation, overgrazing, and unsustainable methods of cultivation are threatening agriculture and food security in the highlands of East Africa. In response, economists and other development professionals have turned their attention to combating the pr
Author : James W. Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107033411
An exploration of preindustrial agriculture that applies insights from biodemography, physiological ecology, and household demography.