Agricultural investment and productivity : building sustainability in East Africa / / edited by Randall A. Bluffstone and Gunnar Kohlin

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : RFF Press, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.109676
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural productivity - Africa, East; Agriculture - Economic aspects - Africa, East; Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa, East; Sustainable agriculture - Africa, East
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BluffstoneRandall <1960-> KohlinGunnar
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Agricultural Investment and Productivity:Building Sustainability in East Africa; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Agricultural Production in East Africa: Stagnation, Investment, and Poverty; Part I: Determinants of Sustainable Land Management Investments; 2. Stimulating Smallholder Investments in Sustainable Land Management: Overcoming Market, Policy, and Institutional Challenges; 3. The Role of Social Capital in Sustainable Development: An Analysis of Soil Conservation in Rural Kenya ; 4. Tenure Security and Incentives for Sustainable Land Management: A Case Study from KenyaPart II: The Effect of Risk on Investments; 5. Risk Preferences and Technology Adoption: Case Studies from the Ethiopian Highlands; 6. Fertilizer Use by Smallholder Households in Northern Ethiopia: Does Risk Aversion Matter?; 7. Crop Biodiversity and the Management of Production Risk on Degraded Lands: Some Evidence from the Highlands of Ethiopia; Part III: Returns to Sustainable Land Management Investments ; 8. Where Does Investment on Sustainable Land Management Technology Work? Empirical Evidence from the Ethiopian Highlands9. Soil Conservation and Small-scale Food Production in Highland Ethiopia: A Stochastic Metafrontier Approach; Part IV: Public Policies and Sustainable Land Management Investments; 10. Policy Instruments to Reduce Downstream Externalities of Soil Erosion and Surface Runoff; 11. Incentives for Sustainable Land Management in East African Countries; 12. Conclusions and Key Lessons; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Agricultural Investment and Productivity provides a deep and systematic look at the opportunities for and constraints to investments in sustainable agriculture in East Africa, offering important insights into what works and how to analyze agricultural investments in one of the poorest regions of the world. The book critically examines the reasons behind East Africa's stagnant agricultural productivity over the past forty-five years, using the primary lens of investments in fertilizers, seeds, and sustainable land management technologies, These investments have a tremendous impact on production
• Titolo autorizzato: Agricultural investment and productivity
• ISBN: 1-283-59001-8; 9786613902467; 1-936331-90-X; 1-136-52186-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464980203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II