Multifunctional land-use systems : a solution for food security in Africa? / Elisabeth Simelton, Madelene Ostwald and Moses Osiru -- Nigerian climate-smart agriculture practices with scaling potential / Simon A Shomkegh -- Treating shea trees as crops improves women's livelihoods in Burkina Faso...

Desvousges, Mathews and Train (2015) find that their contingent valuation method (CVM) survey data does not pass the adding up test using a nonparametric estimate of mean willingness-to-pay. Their data suffers from non-monotocity, flat bid curve and fat tails problems, each of which can cause...

Administrative department as a mechanism of resource allocation -- The evaluation criteria for efficiency and fairness on resource allocation led by the administrative departments -- Applying rent seeking theory to analyze resource allocation by the administrative departments -- The efficiency...

Introduction -- Greater Central Asia : its peoples and their history and geography -- Biogeography and natural resources of greater Central Asia : an overview -- Managing the commons in the post-soviet transition : what are the challenges of institutional change in pastoral systems in Uzbekistan...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Land, scarcity, and property rights -- 2 Land policy: how to deal with scarcity of land -- 3 Instruments of land policy: four types of intervention -- Part II Regulating land uses without impacting...

The purposes of this paper are to bring land factor into the general fame of national product and develop a new modified ‘IS-LM equilibrium model’, aiming to find out the impacts of land factor on the effective allocation of capital between total supply and total demand constituting...

Intro -- Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia -- Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Foreword -- Scope and Purpose of the Book -- Editors' Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors --...

Besides agricultural land the APA holds also non-agricultural land. Such land has been monitored by the APA since 2004. As seen from available data, the sales of non-agricultural land in recent years keeps increasing, as does the revenue on it. This is the result of several factors: Firstly,...

Earth's human population currently exceeds 7 billion, and by the year 2050 our planet will have at least two billion more mouths to feed. When faced with providing food for so many people, the idea is often advanced that Australia will become the 'food bowl' of Asia. Australia currently grows...

We specify a system of equations that fully reflects the supply and demand sides of the market for agricultural open space at equilibrium. Although simple, the system is exceedingly flexible and allows for household and parcel heterogeneity. We derive an empirical model directly from the...

"Estimates of local land rents and firm productivity from wage and housing-cost data should incorporate parameters from the housing production function. Across cities, differences in amenity values are capitalized into the sum of local land values and federal-tax payments. Improved modeling is...