Rahim, Afaf H.; Ierland, Ekko C. van; Wesseler, Justus - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
The gum tree (Acacia senegal) in the Sahel-Sudan zone has many environmental benign functions. An important function is to control desertification. In this paper we analyze farmers' economic incentives to preserve the existing gum trees and their incentives to create new plantations using a real...