Agricultural investment and productivity
Subtitle: building sustainability in East Africa
By: edited by Randall A. Bluffstone and Gunnar Köhlin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: RFF Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781617260919
Subjects: Land use; Sustainable agriculture; Agriculture; Agricultural productivity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Agricultural production in East Africa : stagnation, investment, and poverty / Randall A. Bluffstone and Gunnar Köhlin; title: Determinants of sustainable land management investments; title: Stimulating smallholder investments in sustainable land management : overcoming market, policy, and institutional challenges / Bekele Shiferaw and Julius Okello; title: The role of social capital in sustainable development : an analysis of soil conservation in rural Kenya / Wilfred Nyangena; title: Tenure security and incentives for sustainable land management : a case study from Kenya / Jane Kabubo-Mariara and Vincent Linderhof; title: The effect of risk on investments; title: Risk preferences and technology adoption : case studies from Ethiopian highlands / Mahmud Yesuf and Hailemariam Teklewold; title: Fertilizer use by smallholder households in northern Ethiopia : does risk aversion matter? / Fitsum Hagos and Stein Holden; title: Crop biodiversity and the management of production risk on degraded lands : some evidence from the highlands of Ethiopia / Salvatore di Falco and Jean-Paul Chavas; title: Returns to sustainable land management investments; title: Where does investment on sustainable land management technology work? : empirical evidence from the Ethiopian highlands / Menale Kassie; title: Soil conservation and small scale food production in highland Ethiopia : a stochastic metafrontier approach / Haileselassie Medhin and Gunnar Köhlin; title: Public policies and sustainable land management investments; title: Policy instruments to reduce downstream externalities of soil erosion and surface run-off / Anders Ekbom; title: Incentives for sustainable land management in East African countries / Berhanu Gebremedhin; title: Conclusions and key lessons / Randall A. Bluffstone and Gunnar Köhlin.