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Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas:

An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2023
Brazil, Peru, Amazonia
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
development
environment
biodiversity
grassroots organizations
The Amazon has a diverse array of social and environmental initiatives that adopt forest-based land-use practices to promote rural development and support local livelihoods. However, they are often insufficiently recognized as transformative pathways to sustainability and the factors that explain their success remain understudied.
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Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2022
Global
Land & Investments
development
poverty
environment
natural resources
land economics
capital value (land)
Unequal exchange theory posits that economic growth in the “advanced economies” of the global North relies on a large net appropriation of resources and labour from the global South, extracted through price differentials in international trade. Past attempts to estimate the scale and value of this drain have faced a number of conceptual and empirical limitations, and have been unable to capture the upstream resources and labour embodied in traded goods.
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Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Nepal
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
COVID-19
natural disasters
forestry
community forestry
Natural disasters and pandemics are evolving as major global threats that are posing an enormous challenge to socio- economic and environmental wellbeing. Using a real time analysis of the impressive role played by Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) in Nepal in responding to the 2015 earthquakes (Earthquake-15) and COVID-19, this paper explores the scopes, capacities, institutional strengths and attributes required for community-based institutions such as CFUGs to become effective in managing and responding natural or other disasters.
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Risk preferences, shocks and technology adoption : farmers’ responses to drought risk

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Malawi
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
Climate risk represents an increasing threat to poor and vulnerable farmers in drought-proneareas of Africa. This study assesses the maize and fertilizer adoption responses of food insecure farmers in Malawi, where Drought Tolerant (DT) maize was recently introduced.
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Probability weighting and input use intensity in a state-contingent framework

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Malawi
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
Climate risk represents an increasing threat to poor and vulnerable farmers in drought-prone areas of Africa. This study assesses the fertilizer adoption responses of food insecure farmers in Malawi, where Drought Tolerant (DT) maize was recently introduced. A field experiment, eliciting risk attitudes of farmers, is combined with a detailed farm household survey. A state-contingent production model with rank-dependent utility preferences is estimated.
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High discount rates : an artifact caused by poorly framed experiments or a result of people being poor and vulnerable?

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
poverty
This study revisits the issue whether poverty and shocks are associated with high discount rates by using an incentive compatible Multiple Price List approach in a poor rural population in Africa where a substantial share of the population had been affected by drought in the recent rainy season. Randomized treatments included tests for present bias, magnitude effects and time horizon effects.
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Learning the hard way? : adapting to climate risk in Tanzania

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Tanzania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
We use recent panel data on Tanzanian farm households to investigate how previous exposure to weather shocks affects the impact of a current shock. Speciﬁcally, we investigate the impact of droughts on agricultural outcomes and investments in children’s health, measured by their short- and long-term nutritional status. As expected, we ﬁnd that droughts negatively impact yields, with the impact increasing in the severity of the shock, and that severe droughts have a negative impact on short-term nutritional outcomes of children.
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Community Guide to the International Finance Corporation: An action resource for people affected by IFC-funded projects

Manuals & Guidelines
January, 2020
Global
Land & Investments
development
environment
land-based financing
land rights
local communities
This guide is written for communities who face negative impacts from IFC-supported projects. It explains what the IFC is and how it provides financial and other support to businesses, including intermediary banks and funds. The guide explains what the IFC Environmental and Social Performance Standards are and who is responsible for implementing them and making sure they are respected on the ground.
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Not seeing the carbon for the trees? Why area-based targets for establishing new woodlands can limit or underplay their climate change mitigation benefits

Land Use Policy Volume 97

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
research
Area-based targets for afforestation are a frequent and prominent component of policy discourses on forestry, land use and climate change emissions abatement. Such targets imply an expected contribution of afforestation to the net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, yet the nature of afforestation undertaken and its geographical distribution means that there is considerable uncertainty over the eventual emission reductions outcomes.
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Bioeconomic modelling – An application of environmentally adjusted economic accounts and the computable general equilibrium model

Land Use Policy Volume 92

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land management
land use
natural resources
natural resources management
research
Building on the current international discourse and United Nation's System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) this study provides further empirical evidences on how failure to include natural capital resources in national accounting leads to erroneous calculation of macroeconomic estimates. The SEEA methodological framework for integrating natural capital into the System of National Accounts amplifies analytical power of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and allows to investigate relationship between the economy and the environment.