Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Promoting sustainable upland farming: What does economics tell us?

In this presentation the author covers motivation, decisions and four study approaches, forest clearing regressions, upland deforestation regressions, soil conservation and policy insights.

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): G. Shively
  • Type of Document: Media

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Carbon sequestration in a tropical landscape: An economic model to measure its incremental cost

This article reports on the incremental cost of carbon sequestration in forestry and agroforestry systems, calculating the potential and cost of carbon storage with the tropical […]

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): G. Shively; C. Zelek; D. Midmore; T. Nissen
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Poverty and forest degradation: Introduction to the special issue

This introductory article frames and summarizes a collection of articles regarding forest use and poverty.

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): G.E. Shively
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Conducting economic policy analysis at a landscape level: examples from a dynamic model of a Philippine watershed.

Given the strong and growing policy concern about high rates of hillside erosion and downstream sedimentation associated with upland agriculture, there is a need for analytical […]

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): G.E. Shively; I.A. Coxhead
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Smallholder labor and deforestation: A systems approach

Abstract: The study examined the links between labor market opportunities and deforestation by jointly estimating a system of labor share equations for forest clearing, on-farm production, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): G.E. Shively; M.M. Fisher
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Could payments for forest carbon contribute to improved tropical forest management?

This article assesses the likely impacts of payments for forestry projects that sequester carbon, focusing on scenarios in which industrialized countries may meet Kyoto Protocol emission […]

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): J. Smith; G. Applegate
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Working for Wetlands in SANParks

Contents: Why conserving wetlands? Where does this leave South Africa? What is a wetland? Where to find wetlands Different types of wetlands Functions of wetlands Indirect […]

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): South Africa National Parks
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Payments to the rural poor for the sake of watershed conservation in Ecuador

This presentation reports a study on the willingness of marginalized upland farmers to pay for cleaner water and their willingness to accept compensation to change to […]

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): D. Southgate; F. Rodriguez
  • Type of Document: Media

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Institutional strengthening to enable local governments’s NRM capacity in Bukidnon Province, Philippines

This presentation discusses the structure of the Philipppine government and the relatively recent decentralization that has increased the role of local government in NRM. The institutional […]

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): A. Sumbalan
  • Type of Document: Media

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Technology information needs assessment among the farmers of Lantapan Bukidnon

Objectives: determine the technology information needs of Lantapan farmers and determine available, accessible and potential communication channels for disseminating SANREM results. Methodology: survey research design, structured […]

  • Date of Publication: 2004
  • Author(s): V. Suminguit; D. Tabbada
  • Type of Document: Media

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