Fred Zaal

Sustainable Land Management in the Tropics (eBook, PDF)

Explaining the Miracle
Redaktion: Burger, Kees

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together case studies from Kenya, Benin, Cameroon and the Philippines, this volume provides a multidisciplinary overview of the economics of natural resource management in Tropical regions, at household and village level. By comparing a wide array of climatic and economic conditions, it examines the effect of location and access to the market - as well as the importance of national policies - have on soil and water conservation. The book not only analyzes the benefits of soil and water conservation based on econometric studies, but also assesses the costs involved. In doing so it challenges commonly held assumptions about poorer community's ability to finance such measures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317047773
• Artikelnr.: 44873630

Autorenporträt

Dr Kees Burger, Department of Development Economics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and Dr Fred Zaal, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Optimistic determinism or explaining a miracle
Ton Dietz with Jan Willem Gunning
Andries Klaasse Bos and Adri Zuiderwijk; Beyond population growth: intensification and conservation in dryland small-scale agriculture: Machakos and Kitui districts
Kenya
Fred Zaal and Remco H. Oostendorp; Farm- and household-level drivers of agricultural innovation in Machakos and Kitui districts
Kenya
Remco Oostendorp and Fred Zaal; Impact of transaction costs and risks on terracing in Kenya
Samuel M. Mwakubo
Michael K. Bowen
Wilson K. Yabann and Henry K. Maritim; The productivity of indigenous soil and water conservation in Benin
Esaïe Gandonou and Remco Oostendorp; More market
less poverty
less erosion? The case of Benin
Esaïe Gandonou and Kees Burger; Agricultural intensification in the Koza plain drylands
Cameroon: ongoing trends and possible futures
Wouter T. de Groot and Adri B. Zuiderwijk; Forest fringe farmers on the way to sustainability: an econometric and cost-benefit analysis
Wouter T. de Groot and Marino R. Romero; Transition as induced innovation
Kees Burger; Lessons on land management
Fred Zaal and Kees Burger; References; Index.