Agricultural investment and productivity : building sustainability in East Africa
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Agricultural investment and productivity : building sustainability in East Africa
（Environment for development / Thomas Sterner, series editor）
Routledge, 2017, c2011
- : pbk
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Originally published in hardback by RFF Press, 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 volume, ultimately affecting the income of millions of families throughout the region.
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Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
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 Kenya
Jane Kabubo-Mariara and Vincent Linderhof
Part II: The Effect of Risk on Investments
5. Risk Preferences and Technology Adoption: Case Studies from 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 Highlands
9. 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 Run-Off
11. Incentives for Sustainable Land Management in East African Countries
12. Conclusions and Key Lessons
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