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Access to productive assets and impact on household welfare in rural Uganda
(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 ... -
Caste discrimination, land tenure, and natural resource management in Nepal
(PhD Thesis;2011:03, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The dissertation investigates the issues related to land tenancy transactions, land productivity and land related investment with a due focus on caste discrimination in the Nepalese rural society. This study also explores ... -
Commodity prices and market institutions in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2010:14, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This PhD Thesis comprises five chapters including an introduction and four separate papers. The overall objective of the thesis is to evaluate the performance of agricultural commodity markets in Ethiopia. Economists have ... -
Consumers and bioenergy : the effects of behavioural factors in households' heating consumption choice in Norway
(PhD Thesis;2013:63, Doctoral thesis, 2013)How energy consumers behave, namely, what type and how much of different energy products and services they consume, direct and indirect affects the environment, as well as personal (and collective) well-being. Understanding ... -
Efficiency, risk and management of fisheries sector in Bangladesh
(PhD Thesis;2012:62, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This dissertation consists of an introduction and five independent papers on Bangladesh fisheries sector. The first paper investigates how the fishery sector has developed and identifies the potential problems faced by the ... -
Essays on contracts, risk coping and technology adoption in Ethiopia
(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 ... -
Essays on economic valuation of cultural and natural resources in Vietnam
(Dr.scient.;2007:9, Doctoral thesis, 2007)The thesis consists of five self-contained papers. The first four papers are concerned with the economic valuation of cultural heritage sites, while the last one estimates direct use values of coastal wetlands in Vietnam. In ... -
Essays on the multifunctionality of agruculture and policy options
(Dr.scient.;2008:5, Doctoral thesis, 2008)Jordbruket produserer mer enn bare varer som kan omsettes i markeder. I tillegg produseres en lang rekke goder, onder og tjenester som ikke kan omsettes i markeder. Jordbruket kan på grunn av dette gi bidra til ulike ... -
Land rental markets, investment and productivity under customary land tenure systems in Malawi
(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
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Landholding, forest extraction and poverty in Uganda
(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 ... -
Mapping farmers’ preferences of cimate change adaptation measures : stated preference and field experiments in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2019:46, Doctoral thesis, 2019)This thesis maps preferences for climate change adaptation measures and ecosystem services among Ethiopian smallholder farmers; by analyzing their decision-making behavior under uncertainty in a framed field experiment, ... -
Risk and irrigation investment in a semi-arid economy
(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 ... -
Rural nonfarm employment in Ethiopia : participation, impacts and dynamics
(PhD Thesis;2010:20, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This thesis consists of four papers analyzing the different facets of rural nonfarm employment in Ethiopia. The analyses in this thesis are mainly based on panel data of more than 1400 rural household in Ethiopia. The ... -
Socioeconomic status and health : the role of lifestyle choices
(PhD Thesis;2012:4, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This thesis focuses on the relationship between socioeconomic status, health and related lifestyle choices. It uses repeated cross-section and stated preference data from Norway and consists of four papers. The first paper ... -
Technology adoption, land rental contracts and agricultural productivity
(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 ... -
The economics of dairy production : effects of breeding and marketing quotas
(PhD Thesis;2012:22, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This dissertation compiles four articles investigating the effects of breeding and marketing quota in dairy production. Farm level panel datasets from Norway and Iceland were used for the analysis. In the first article, ... -
The flower markets : five essays on flower prices 1993-2008
(PhD Thesis;2010:40, Doctoral thesis, 2010)The thesis consists of an introduction and five independent, but related essays. The unifying theme is the challenge of production and marketing of cut flowers under price uncertainty. Essay I gives an overview of international ... -
Treatment of undesirable outputs in production analysis : desirable modeling strategies and applications
(PhD Thesis;2011:38, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The thesis consists of an introduction and four related papers. Their common topic is production analysis when undesirable outputs are accounted for. The introduction establishes the research platform on which the following ... -
Willingness to pay for quality in experimental auction markets and stated choice surveys
(Dr.scient.;2003:1, Doctoral thesis, 2003)The principal objective of this thesis is to investigate the willingness to pay for quality. The thesis consists of four papers exploring Norwegian consumer preferences for imported and hormone-treated beef. The first paper ...