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Diouf, Abdoul Aziz; Mirzabaev, Alisher; Mbow, Cheikh; … - 2025

Agroforestry systems are vital for sustainable development in Africa, offering significant benefits such as enhanced agricultural productivity, biodiversity conservation, and climate resilience. This study provides a detailed analysis of the past, present, and potential future distributions of...

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Sustained Development of Land Resources : A Policy Model for Sudan

Abdelgalil, Eisa - 2015

The paper develops a model that shares common features with the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. It is used to address two questions. First, what are the future prospects of a green gross domestic product (GDP), should we be concerned for resource degradation or not, and to what...

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Toward a Sustainable Food System

Matson, James; VandenBrook, Jim - 2021

Agriculture uses more land and water than any other human activity, and our consumption demands continue to grow even as our resource base shrinks. A highly industrialized U.S. food system produces lots of food at seemingly low per unit cost. But our current system is taking a heavy toll on...

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Framework for Assessing Environmental Management in Agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012

This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and...

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Environmental Markets

Flatt, Victor Byers - 2016

Market-based (or economic incentive) control strategies have been used in a variety of environmental contexts for over 25 years. Due to political and economic theories, their use has been proliferating in more and more contexts. This chapter discusses the underlying theory of using markets or...

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State-Facilitated Bottom Up in Agricultural Water Governance and Sustainability of Solutions to Recurring Water Stress : A Case Study from Smallholders’ Perspective in Uzbekistan

Niyazmetov, Davron; Soliev, Ilkhom; Rudenko, Inna - 2020

Agricultural water stress is a critical problem undermining socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability of water and land resources in many agriculture-based economies. Uzbekistan is an example of such case, where for coping with the problem, water reforms such as creation of...

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Utilization of landfill biogas in the context of sustainable development based on the example of communal landfill in Opole

Kaszubska, Mirosława; Wzorek, Małgorzata; Koszyk, … - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 4, pp. 1087-1101

This paper presents the results of a study into the application of landfill biogas by applying an example of a biogas … operation of a biogas power plant. During the study, the environmental impact of the facility was assessed. This analysis … involved the considerations of a biogas power plant in terms of the social impacts of its operation. An economic assessment was …

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Total factor productivity, deforestation, and voluntary sustainability standards : evidence from Rwandese coffee farmers

Paz, Bruno; Dalheimer, Bernhard; Wollni, Meike - 2024

farmers in Rwanda, we measure the effect of VSS on technical efficiency and an enhanced vegetation index (EVI) reflecting …

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A comparative study on the role of public-private partnerships and green investment banks in boosting low-carbon investments

David, Dharish; Venkatachalam, Anbumozhi - 2018

Following the successful climate agreement in Paris, global attention shifted quickly to how countries will achieve their nationally determined contributions. To achieve the goals, governments need to make full use of the private sector capacity to unlock much larger flows of private investment...

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Ethiopia - land, energy, climate change, and agricultural development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security

Assefa Admassie; Abebaw, Degnet - 2021

Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of more than 110 million. With over 10 percent growth rate, the Ethiopian economy has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the last one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the...

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