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| Klemick, Heather. |
| This article examines the determinants of forest cover and land use efficiency in a shifting cultivation system. A conceptual model demonstrates that liquidity constraints encourage farmers to allocate more land to forest fallow and less to cultivation by limiting input purchases. Data from farm households in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon allow me to test whether farmers allocate land between cropping and fallow efficiently from an individual or a community perspective. I find that many farmers devote more land to fallow than is privately optimal, benefiting community income as a whole due to positive local externalities provided by secondary forest. I also estimate the effect of a variety of socioeconomic and agroecological factors on fallow allocation... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6473 |
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| Klemick, Heather. |
| This study examines the drivers of land use in a shifting cultivation system with forest fallow. Forest fallow provides on-farm soil quality benefits, local hydrological regulation, and global public goods. An optimal control model demonstrates that farmers have an incentive to fallow less than is socially optimal, though market failures limiting crop production can have a countervailing effect by encouraging fallow. An econometric model estimated using data from the Brazilian Amazon suggests that fallowing does not result from internalization of local fallow services but instead is associated with poor market access and labor and liquidity constraints. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Forest; Farms; Fallow; Ecosystem services; Land use; Spatial econometrics; Brazil; Credit; International Development; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120270 |
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| El-Harizi, Khalid; Klemick, Heather. |
| Parallel to the growing attention being devoted to the relationship between empowerment and development, an increasing number of tools are being developed to measure empowerment and determine the link between these two phenomena. This paper details the methodological processes used to construct, test and possibly refine one such instrument, the Community Capability Index, an innovative tool to measure community capabilities in the domain of natural resource governance. Empirical reference is made to research conducted in 85 villages in North and South Kordofan, Sudan. Following this, the paper presents findings from analyses of the determinants of community capabilities, including geographic, economic, and institutional variables. The results suggest that... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Capabilities; Sudan; IFAD; Community Capabilities Index; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42369 |
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| Klemick, Heather; Leonard, Kenneth L.; Masatu, Melkiory C.. |
| We examine the implications of health seeking behavior on access to quality health care using a unique dataset that combines a household survey from rural Tanzania with the location and quality of all health facilities available to households. Patients do not always visit the nearest facility, but choose from among multiple facilities, improving the quality of care they receive by bypassing low quality facilities. Recognizing this behavior alters the projected benefits to health interventions, reducing the value of focusing on the staff qualifications and increasing the value of focusing on travel time and the motivation of current staff. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Health Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6178 |
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