Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Holden, Stein"
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Attaining secure rural livelihood : the role of household strategies and public interventions
Debela, Bethelhem Legesse (PhD Thesis;2014:93, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This dissertation uses survey data from Northern Ethiopia and Western Uganda to study the role of household strategies and public interventions in enabling households to attain secure rural livelihoods. The thesis composes ... -
Climate change and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa : four approaches to modeling rural households
Skjeflo, Sofie Waage (PhD Thesis;2015:7, Doctoral thesis, 2018-02-28)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to increased knowledge of potential impacts of climate change on the welfare of households in developing countries. It focuses on impacts of changing temperature and precipitation ... -
Climate-smart agriculture in Malawi : uptake and opportunities in the face of climate change
Katengeza, Samson Pilanazo (Doctoral thesis, 2018)Is agriculture becoming climate-smart? Can recurrent weather events such as droughts explain increased use and adoption of agricultural technologies that are perceived climate-smart? I have merged a four-wave household ... -
The economics of fertilizer subsidies
Holden, Stein (CLTS Working paper;9/18, Working paper, 2018)Fertilizer and other input subsidies have been a prominent component of agricultural policies in many Asian and African countries since the 1960s. Their economic and political rationale is scrutinized with emphasis on the ... -
Essays on contracts, risk coping and technology adoption in Ethiopia
Tadesse, Million (PhD Thesis;2010:18, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This dissertation consists of an introduction and four independent papers. The first two papers examine land and livestock rental contractual arrangements. The first paper provides detailed analysis of cost sharing contract ... -
Homicides in the developing world : is capital punishment an effective deterrent? : an empirical analysis
Mujtaba, Shayan (Master thesis, 2020)This study uses a panel data on 24 developing countries across four continents Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe on homicide rates for a period of 12 years from 2001-2012. Data for the analysis were taken from different ... -
Impacts of the fertilizer subsidy programme in Malawi : targeting, household perceptions and preferences
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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 ... -
Land policy reform : the role of land markets and women's land rights in Malawi
Holden, Stein; Kaarhus, Randi; Lunduka, Rodney (Noragric report;36, Report, 2006) -
Land rental markets, investment and productivity under customary land tenure systems in Malawi
Lunduka, Rodney Witman (PhD Thesis;2009:3, Doctoral thesis, 2009)As customary land tenure remains the predominant model of landholding in rural Africa and land the cornerstone of rural livelihood security, improving land tenure security is often equated with integration of customary ... -
Land tenure in the highlands of Eritrea : economic theory and empirical evidence
Tikabo, Mahari Okbasillassie (Dr.scient.;2003:27, Doctoral thesis, 2003) -
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 ... -
Poverty, institutions, peasant behavior and conservation investment in northern Ethiopia
Hagos, Fitsum (Dr.scient.;2003:2, Doctoral thesis, 2003) -
Poverty, resource use and intensification strategies of smallholders under population pressure in southern Ethiopia
Engeda, Worku Tessema (PhD Thesis;2007:37, Doctoral thesis, 2007)The dissertation investigates resource use and intensification strategies of smallholders facing poverty and population pressure. It comprises an introduction and four independent papers. Based on data collected from a ... -
Risk and irrigation investment in a semi-arid economy
Gebrezgi, Gebrehaweria Gebregziabher (PhD Thesis;2008:49, Doctoral thesis, 2008)The thesis consists of an introduction and four independent papers. It investigates the role of production risk and irrigation investment on farm households’ production decisions, efficiency, and income. Paper I analyses ... -
Socioeconomic correlates of poverty in Ghana using Ghana Living Standards Survey round 6 and 7
Aboagye-Attah, Kwabena (Master thesis, 2019)Poverty is a measure of standard of living in a country. This thesis studies the social and economic factors correlated with poverty in Ghana. Data from the sixth and seventh rounds of the Ghana Living Standard Survey ... -
Technology adoption, land rental contracts and agricultural productivity
Kassie, Menale (Dr.scient.;2005:20, Doctoral thesis, 2005)This dissertation explores the potential for adoption of agricultural technologies and how alternative land rental contracts and kinship influence agricultural productivity and input use. It contains an introduction and ... -
Tenure, forest use and policies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)
Dokken, Therese (PhD Thesis;2014:57, Doctoral thesis, 2014)The objectives of the thesis is to improve our understanding of what determine differences in access to and use of land and forest resources across households, introduce new methods to analyze this, and identify policy ... -
Too poor to be efficient? : impacts of the targeted fertilizer subsidy programmein Malawi on farm plot level input use, crop choice and land productivity
Holden, Stein; Lunduka, Rodney (Noragric report;55, Report, 2010)