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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2000
    Ethiopia, Eastern Africa

    This paper develops and applies a new approach for analyzing the spatial aspects of individual adoption of a technology that produces a mixed public-private good. The technology is an animal insecticide treatment called a “pouron” that individual households buy and apply to their animals. Private benefits accrue to households whose animals are treated, while the public benefits accrue to all those who own animals within an area of effective suppression. A model of household demand for pourons is presented.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2000
    Ethiopia

    This paper develops and applies a new approach for analyzing the spatial aspects ofindividual adoption of a technology that produces a mixed public-private good. The technologyis an animal insecticide treatment called a “pouron” that individual households buy and apply totheir animals. Private benefits accrue to households whose animals are treated, while the publicbenefits accrue to all those who own animals within an area of effective suppression.A model of household demand for pourons is presented.

  3. Library Resource

    the case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2000
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ethiopia

    This paper examines the nature of community management of woodlots and investigates the determinants of collective action and its effectiveness in managing woodlots, based on a survey of 100 villages in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. We find that collective management of woodlots generally functions well in Tigray. Despite limited current benefits received by community members, the woodlots contribute substantially to community wealth, increasing members’ willingness to provide collective effort to manage the woodlots.

  4. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 2000
    Ethiopia
  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2000
    Switzerland, Belgium, El Salvador, Zimbabwe, China, Indonesia, Jamaica, Austria, Guinea, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Thailand, Philippines, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Eritrea

    Historically, land improvement schemes were based on encouraging, through financial incentives, land users to adopt specific soil management and conservation measures. Insufficient attention was paid to the constraints faced by farmers or to the policy, biophysical and socio-economic environment. In many cases such approaches have failed in restoring the natural resources and in increasing productivity in sustainable manner. For too long farmers have been the passive recipients of externally derived research and extension recommendations for soil management and conservation.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2000
    Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

    The paper identifies poverty and malnutrition, low crop and livestock productivity, widespread land degradation and underutilization of some resources as a major problem of highlands. To tackle these problems, a systems approach to research has been adapted and research has been conducted under the following themes: intentional food/feed production strategies, feed utilisation strategies, livestock mediated soil, water and nutrient management strategies, and spatial integration of system improvement strategies.

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