This chapter provides an overview of the valuation methods and methodological approaches used to evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of natural resource management (NRM) interventions. First, the multiple agro-ecosystem services associated with NRM are summarized. The core issues invo...
Shiferaw, B.
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Freeman, H.A.
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Navrud, S.
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[Valuation methods and approaches for assessing natural resource management impacts]
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Valuation methods and approaches for assessing natural resource management impacts
Animal diseases cause significant economic losses to the livestock sub-sector in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). To minimize these losses, SSA governments have allocated over 70% of total livestock services budgets to disease control and other animal health services. Declining state budgets, however, ...
Tambi, N.E.
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Maina, W.O.
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Randolph, Thomas F.
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[An analysis of the impact of public animal health expenditures on the performance of the livestock sub-sector in Kenya]
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An analysis of the impact of public animal health expenditures on the performance of the livestock sub-sector in Kenya
This study describes the existing credit policies and programs in South Vietnam that are related to smallholder livestock production and Development; evaluates the implementation of current credit delivery systems and their impacts on farmers, focusing on implications for technology adoption by s...
Ho Cao Viet
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Lapar, Ma. Lucila
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Aragón, C.
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[Credit access by smallholder livestock producers and implications for technology adoption: Policy options for improving the credit delivery system in South Vietnam.]
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Credit access by smallholder livestock producers and implications for technology adoption: Policy options for improving the credit delivery system in South Vietnam.
Estimates the relative shares of crop livestock and non-farm income sources in total cash incomes of sample smallholder producers in the semi-arid zone of Mali and attempts to understand the mechanisms and motives of cash income transfers from one sector to the other. Describes the study area and...
Debrah, S.K.
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Sissoko, K.
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[Sources and transfers of cash income in the rural economy: The case of smallholder mixed farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali]
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Sources and transfers of cash income in the rural economy: The case of smallholder mixed farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali
This study describes the patterns and levels of consumption of locally produced, factory-manufactured and directly imported, and readily usable dairy products in the city of Bamako, Mali. It covers a sample of 240 urban households stratified by wealth category (rich, medium income and poor). Taki...
Sissoko, K.
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Debrah, S.K.
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Soumare, S.
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[Patterns of acquisition and consumption of milk and other dairy products in Bamako, Mali]
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Patterns of acquisition and consumption of milk and other dairy products in Bamako, Mali
Discusses ways of studying economics of household level activities in pastoral production systems, with particular reference to the collection and analysis of data on household income and expenditure as well as resources inventory.
Debrah, S.K.
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Soumare, S.
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Sissoko, K.
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[Acquistion and Consuption Patterns of Dairy Products in Bamako]
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Acquistion and Consuption Patterns of Dairy Products in Bamako
International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases
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[ILRAD Annual accounts with supporting reports for 1989]
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ILRAD Annual accounts with supporting reports for 1989
Describes possible methods of allocating research resources based on different analytical models. Presents a brief review of models proposed; and some evidence about current agricultural and livestock reserch in sub-Saharan Africa. Also presents emperical tests of which variables might be importa...
McIntire, John M.
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[Allocation of livestock research resources in sub-Saharan Africa]
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Allocation of livestock research resources in sub-Saharan Africa