Browsing Brage NMBU by Author "Angelsen, Arild"
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Access to productive assets and impact on household welfare in rural Uganda
Tatwangire, Alex (PhD Thesis;2011:27, Doctoral thesis, 2011)This thesis assesses the impact of access to productive assets on the welfare of rural farm households in Uganda. It consists of an introduction paper and five other independent papers. Paper I provides robust empirical ... -
Assessment of the impact of labour out migration on household agricultural production and income distribution : a case study of Mardi watershed in western hills of Nepal
Sesabo, Jennifer Kasanda (Master thesis, 2001)The migration of labour out of agriculture can have a profound effect on agricultural production, consumption and income distribution in rural areas of third world countries. This study examines the effect of labour-out-migration ... -
Challenging Perceptions about Men, Women, and Forest Product Use: A Global Comparative Study
Sunderland, Terry; Achdiawan, Ramadhani; Angelsen, Arild; Babigumira, Ronnie; Ickowitz, Amy; Paumgarten, Fiona; Reyes-Garcia, Victoria; Shively, Gerald E (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014) -
Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD+ initiatives
Bos, Astrid B; Duchelle, Amy E.; Angelsen, Arild; Avitabile, Valerio; de Sy, Veronique; Herold, Martin; Joseph, Shijo; de Sassi, Claudio; Sills, Erin O; Sunderlin, William D.; Wunder, Sven (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017) -
Conservation agriculture, livelihoods and deforestation in Zambia
Ngoma, Hambulo (PhD Thesis;2016:102, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Conservation agriculture (CA) practices such as minimum tillage have been promoted for about two decades as a way to conserve soils and increase agricultural productivity and farm incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, including ... -
Crops in crises: Shocks shape smallholders' diversification in rural Ethiopia
Makate, Clifton; Angelsen, Arild; Holden, Stein Terje; Westengen, Ola Tveitereid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022) -
Drivers of deforestation and incentives for REDD+
Naime Sánchez Henkel, Julia del Carmen (PhD Thesis;2022:4, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Tropical deforestation is a global environmental and development problem. Identifying policies that effectively reduce deforestation while improving rural livelihoods is essential to meet our climate and sustainable ... -
Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods: A Global-Comparative Analysis
Angelsen, Arild; Jagger, Pamela; Babigumira, Ronnie; Belcher, Brian; Hogarth, Nicholas J; Bauch, Simone Carolina; Borner, Jan; Smith-Hall, Carsten; Wunder, Sven (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014) -
Food vs. non-food crops : changes in areas and yields 1992 to 2016
Reinertsen, Henrik Liadal (Master thesis, 2018)Changing demand for different agricultural products causes shifts in land use. Until recently, food production was the main agricultural practice for most countries. Today, producing nonfood crops, exclusively is on the ... -
Forests and livelihoods in Malawi : looking beyond aggregate income shares
Chilongo, Thabbie Maxwell Saukira (PhD Thesis;2014:51, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis assesses the role and determinants of forest products on livelihoods of rural households surrounding Chimaliro and Liwonde forest reserves in Malawi. The task is achieved in four independent but thematically-related ... -
Forests, livelihoods, and conservation: broadening the empirical base
Wunder, Sven; Angelsen, Arild; Belcher, Brian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)More than 10,000 years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural smallholders across the developing world may still derive as much income from foraging forests and wildlands as from cultivating crops. ... -
How not to cut down a tree : a comparative study of forest policies, livelihoods and land use in Vietnam
Trædal, Leif Tore (PhD Thesis;2017:11, Doctoral thesis, 2017)This thesis focuses on the role of forests and forest management in providing global environmental and climate services. The study analyzes multiple dimensions of forest-sector policy development, with a special focus on ... -
In matters of taste, there can be no disputes : an empirical study of endogenous preferences
Jonsson, Pia Jihan (Master thesis, 2020)A fundamental assumption in traditional economic theory is exogeneity of preferences. Economists view preferences as innate characteristics that are stable with regards to time and space. This thesis questions this assumption ... -
Incentivized forest conservation : spatial econometric and experimental evidence
Hailu, Amare Teklay (PhD Thesis;2018:21, Doctoral thesis, 2018)A key element in the implementation of an effective result-based mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is the reference level (RL). Setting RLs requires modeling and predicting ... -
Is Europe moving in the right direction? : a statistical analysis of right-wing populism
Godal, Eirik Skoglund (Master thesis, 2020)Right-wing populism has emerged as a major political force in Europe over the last 10 to 15 years and changed the political balance in several countries. Many researchers and studies have attempted to explain this phenomenon ... -
Kan flyreisende dultes ut av køen? : telefon vs. selvbetjening : en eksperimentell studie av Norwegians telefonkunder
Thorsen, Hanna Elisabeth (Master thesis, 2018)Vi ser på tre tiltak for å dulte innringere til Norwegian Air Shuttle å foretrekke selvbetjening, heller enn å ringe til kundeservice for bestilling eller endring av billett. Tiltakene er prisinformasjon, tilrettelegging ... -
Landholding, forest extraction and poverty in Uganda
Ainembabazi, John Herbert (PhD Thesis;2012:53, Doctoral thesis, 2012)Motivated by a large body of literature that suggests land is a key determinant of livelihood strategies for farm households in developing countries, this thesis offers insights on how the mode of land acquisition at the ... -
Learning from REDD+: a response to Fletcher et al.
Angelsen, Arild; Brockhaus, Maria; Duchelle, Amy E.; Larson, Anne M.; Martius, Christopher; Sunderlin, William D.; Verchot, Louis V.; Wong, Grace; Wunder, Sven (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017) -
Options for National REDD+ Architectures. Report from the Conference (29-31 May 2013)
Vatn, Arild; Angelsen, Arild; McNeill, Desmond; Trædal, Leif Tore (Noragric report;69, Report, 2013-10) -
Pathways to development
Bachke, Maren Elise (PhD Thesis;2014:73, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis consists of four articles and an introduction. It contributes to the debate on development, development aid and poverty reduction, and identifies possible pathways to development. In particular, I study financing ...