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The thesis explores the extent to which payment for the ecosystem service of carbon sequestration provided in a value chain context, through an innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy known as 'carbon insetting', could generate 'win-win' outcomes for all actors. Drawing on e...

Small farmers are one of the hardest hit groups in the world that is affected by the negative consequences of a changing climate. Their absolute dependence on weather conditions makes them extremely vulnerable. A catastrophe can be as small as rains arriving too soon or too late in the season; de...

The Government of Ethiopia has been implementing a resettlement program in Metema woreda in Amhara region since 2003. Previously in the Derge Regime, another resettlement program has been implemented in 1985 and voluntary settlers were in-migrating even before that. Extension service is mandated ...

Women’s land rights are increasingly advocated as an empowerment tool to spur development outcomes. However, empirical evidence of this relationship is limited. In this study we use data from peasant communities in rural Peru to explore the effect of the intra-household allocation of inherited la...

Although diversification and insurance are acknowledged as important in ameliorating risk, to our knowledge, no empirical study has investigated how the two approaches work in concert in developing countries. Given increasing climate variability and the risks it poses to rain-fed agriculture, thi...

An essential aspect for smallholder crop-livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa is productive soils in order to maintain animal and crop productivity. Often, these systems are heavily dependent on local resources for their input and as a result, manure forms an important by-prod...