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| Barbier, Bruno; Bergeron, Gilles. |
| The objective of this study is to simulate the effect of population pressure, market integration, technological improvement and policy decisions on natural resource management in the hillsides of Honduras. To do so, we developed a bioeconomic model that combines dynamic linear programming with a biophysical model, then applied this model to a typical microwatershed. Over recent years, farmers from the selected microwatershed have followed a "vegetables-intensive" pathway of development. We ran different scenarios with historical data over the period 1975 to 1995 and then projected 25 years into the future from 1995 to 2020. The results of the bioeconomic model presented in this paper help to test a number of induced innovation hypotheses. Many of our... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16058 |
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| Barbier, Bruno; Bergeron, Gilles. |
| Farmers who live in fragile tropical hillsides often operate under severe resource constraints and face difficult tradeoffs when confronted with changes in production conditions. Using a bioeconomic linear programming model, this study simulates the effects of population, market, and technological changes on farmers income and on their management of the natural resource in a hillside area of Central Honduras.The results show that economic growth and agricultural intensification are not necessarily adverse for fragile environments. In fact, farmer incomes would be much lower and degradation much higher if intensive agriculture had not been adopted. Such a result, however, must be framed within a complex set of conditioning factors, among which agroecology... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16527 |
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| Belhouchette, Hatem; Wery, Jacques; Therond, Olivier; Alkan Olsson, Johanna; Adenauer, Marcel; Kuiper, Marijke H.; Samake, Amadou; Belieres, Jean Francois; Rapidel, Bruno; Barbier, Bruno; Diarisso, Tidiane; Traore, Bouba Sidi; Nawrot, Barbara; Straszewski, Slawomir; Was, Adam; Majewski, Edward; Bigot, Genevieve; Josien, Etienne; Turpin, Nadine; Bousset, Jean-Paul. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57787 |
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| Hearne, Robert R.; Barbier, Bruno; Gonzalez, Jose Manuel. |
| In Honduras, traditional coffee processing is the cause of two problems: poor coffee quality and contaminated water. In this study we propose to replace traditional coffee processing plants with a network of improved ecological plants that would be optimally located in a sub-watershed. The method is an adaptation of a spatial integer linear programming that determines the optimal location and size of new coffee processing plants. We applied the method to a typical sub-watershed in the hillsides of western Honduras and show that coffee quality can be improved and contamination can be reduced substantially at a relatively low cost. We also calculated the incentive for small farmers to give up home processing. We find that the incentive is much lower than the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19761 |
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