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Environmental Problems in Southeast Asia: Property Regimes as Cause and Solution

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Dezembro, 1996

Brief paper on the role of property rights in the economic analysis of environmental problems in Southeast Asia. First talks about the causal role of property rights in the existence of environmental problems, then how property rights must be incorporated into the economic analyses of these problems.

The determinants of agricultural production : a cross-country analysis

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Dezembro, 1996

Capital is important to agricultural production, so policies that improve access to agricultural capital will facilitate growth, if the capital is used efficiently. In this analysis of capital's role in agricultural production, a new construction of data on capital allowed Mundlak, Larson, and Butzer to advance the cross-country study of production functions.

Integrating peasant knowledge and geographic information systems : a spatial approach to sustainable agriculture

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Dezembro, 1996
México
América Latina e Caribe

Starting with a discussion of the scientific versus the traditional methods of land evaluation and perception, the authors formulate a methodological framework to integrate both perspectives into a geographic-information/expert-system environment aimed at sustainable development of a rural community, and present a case study in Central Mexico.

Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

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Dezembro, 1996
Malawi
Europa
África subsariana

Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.