Determining the level of payment and selecting participants are important but frequently neglected issues that affect social, economic and environmental performance of payment for environmental services (PES) programs. We use a pilot auction to address these issues in the context of a PES program...
Jindal R
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Kerr JM
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Ferraro, P.J.
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Swallow, B.M.
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[Social dimensions of procurement auctions for environmental service contracts: Evaluating trade-offs between cost-effectiveness and participation by the poor in rural Tanzania]
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Social dimensions of procurement auctions for environmental service contracts: Evaluating trade-offs between cost-effectiveness and participation by the poor in rural Tanzania
Increasing attention to watershed management is part of an international policy trend toward integrated water resource management. Integration is multidimensional across sectors, administrative regions, ministerial portfolios and levels of hydrologic structure and socioeconomic organization. Coll...
Swallow, B.M.
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Knox McCulloch, A
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[The challenges of inclusive cross-scale collective action in watersheds]
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The challenges of inclusive cross-scale collective action in watersheds
African animal trypanosomiasis constaints the production of milk, meat and animal traction across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The tsetse-transmitted disease is particularly important in Ethiopia where at least six million cattle are exposed to the disease. In 1000 a trypanosomiasis control progra...
Swallow, B.M.
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Mulatu, W.
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[Evaluating willingness to contribute to a local public good: Application of contingent valuation to tsetse control in Ethiopia]
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Evaluating willingness to contribute to a local public good: Application of contingent valuation to tsetse control in Ethiopia
A household survey was conducted in six villages of Busia District, Kenya, to assess people's willingness to contribute labor and money to control the tsetse flies that transmit trypanosomiasis. A Heckman's two-step model was estimated to identify factors affecting the probability that a responde...
Echessah, P.N.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Kamara, D.W.
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Curry, J.J.
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[Willingness to contribute labor and money to tsetse control: application of contingent valuation in Busia District, Kenya]
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Willingness to contribute labor and money to tsetse control: application of contingent valuation in Busia District, Kenya
Kamara, Abdul B.
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Kirk, M.
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Swallow, B.M.
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[Property rights and land use change: implications for sustainable resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia]
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Property rights and land use change: implications for sustainable resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia
This paper estimates the preferences of farmers for cattle traits in southern Burkina Faso using conjoint analysis, a survey-based system for measuring preferences for multiple-attribute goods. Here the technique is used in the context of a West African country where literacy is low, where cattle...
Tano, K.
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Faminow, M.
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Kamuanga, M.
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Swallow, B.M.
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[Using conjoint analysis to estimate farmer's preferences for cattle traits in West Africa]
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Using conjoint analysis to estimate farmer's preferences for cattle traits in West Africa
The Borana rangelands occur in a semi-arid area in southern
Ethiopia, characterized by extensive livestock production. The area is a valuable source of livestock that generates income and livelihoods for large numbers of rural dwellers, and export earnings for Ethiopia's fragile economy. Desp...
Kamara, A.
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Kirk, M.
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Swallow, B.M.
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[Property rights and land use change: Implications for sustainable resource management in Borana, southern Ethiopia]
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Property rights and land use change: Implications for sustainable resource management in Borana, southern Ethiopia
Interviews with all the households in the Agropastoral Zone (ZAP) of Yale, southern Burkina Faso, were conducted in 1994 and again in 1997 to assess the impacts of a tsetse control programme implemented from 1994, using insecticide-impregnated targets and pour-on treatments of all cattle with del...
Kamuanga, M.
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Sigue, H.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Bauer, B.
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D'Ieteren, G.D.M.
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[Farmers' perceptions of the impacts of tsetse and trypanosomosis control on livestock production: Evidence from southern Burkina Faso]
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Farmers' perceptions of the impacts of tsetse and trypanosomosis control on livestock production: Evidence from southern Burkina Faso
Cattle raised in the Ghibe valley of southwest Ethiopia are exposed to medium to high levels of trypanosomiasis risk and are often given trypanocidal drugs. A benefit-cost analysis was undertaken to evaluate the financial and economic returns generated by cattle raised in the area under a systema...
Itty, P.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Rowlands, G.J.
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Mulatu, W.
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D'Ieteren, G.D.M.
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[The economics of village cattle production in a tsetse infested area of southwest Ethiopia]
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The economics of village cattle production in a tsetse infested area of southwest Ethiopia
From biological data collected between January 1986 and December 1989, and economic data collected during 1988, 10-year projections of herd structure, production, and economic and financial returns were calculated for 13 village cattle herds at two village sites in the Gambia. The analyses indica...
Itty, P.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Rowlands, G.J.
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Agyemang, K.
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Dwinger, R.H.
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[Economics of village production of N'Dama cattle in the Gambia]
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Economics of village production of N'Dama cattle in the Gambia