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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Environmental Conservation and Food Security in Developing Countries: Bridging the Disconnect
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| Autores: |
Ajayi, Olu Clifford
Matakala, Patrick
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| Data: |
2006-06-20
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| Ano: |
2006
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| Palavras-chave: |
Externalities
Agricultural Policy
Agricultural technology
Sustainability
Ecosystem services
Environmental Economics and Policy
Food Security and Poverty
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| Resumo: |
In many developing countries, environmental issues are often sacrificed for immediate food production requirements because of perceived tradeoff between two. Some production systems exist however that offers opportunities for achieving the two seemingly divergent objectives because they have the characteristics to produce joint outputs; food production and environmental conservation, but their adoption in farming communities is socially sub-optimal despite proven technological success. Using natural resource economics framework, this study highlights the reasons for the low adoption of such technologies taking Agroforestry technologies as a case study and, uses externality theory to provide environmental economic logic for developing incentives to internalize environmental services "produced" to enhance their adoption and unlock their potential to satisfy both food production and delivery of environmental services for the benefit of the wider public. Taking Agroforestry as a case study, this paper examines environmental conservation through sustainable agriculture development lens and, concludes by outlining strategies for achieving this, taking cognizance of the socio-economic context of farmers in low income countries.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
22598
http://purl.umn.edu/25636
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
International Association of Agricultural Economists>2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia
Contributed Paper
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| Formato: |
16
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