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Applied Methods for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

A Festschrift in Honor of Richard E. Howitt

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  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Siwa Msangi

    1. Silver Spring, USA

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  2. Duncan MacEwan

    1. ERA Economics Consulting , Davis, USA

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  • Provides an overview of valuable empirical methods in agricultural production and water resource management
  • Addresses important water policy problems in California and elsewhere
  • Analyzes policy implications for environmental decision-makers and resource managers

Part of the book series: Natural Resource Management and Policy (NRMP, volume 50)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Siwa Msangi
    Pages 1-7

  3. Applied Methods for Agricultural Production and Sector Modeling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Towards Econometric Mathematical Programming for Policy Analysis

      • Bruno Henry de Frahan
      Pages 11-36

    3. Soil and Crop Choice

      • Peter Berck, Lunyu Xie
      Pages 37-46

    4. Spatial Equilibrium, Imperfect Competition, and Calibrating Models

      • Quirino Paris
      Pages 47-74

  4. Applied Methods for Water Resource Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Payment for Environmental Services: How Big Must Be the Check to Multiproduct Farmers?

      • Marcelo Torres, Richard E. Howitt
      Pages 77-88

    3. Optimal Allocation of Groundwater Resources: Managing Water Quantity and Quality

      • Qiuqiong Huang, Scott D. Rozelle, Richard E. Howitt, James E. Wilen
      Pages 89-114

    4. Managing Urban and Agricultural Water Demands in Northern China: The Case of Luancheng County, Hebei Province

      • Siwa Msangi
      Pages 115-126

  5. Application of Information-Theoretic Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Using Moment Constraints in GME Estimation

      • Richard E. Howitt, Siwa Msangi
      Pages 129-144

    3. Estimating Field-Level Rotations as Dynamic Cycles

      • Duncan MacEwan, Richard E. Howitt
      Pages 145-169

  6. Using Quantitative Methods to Inform Decision-Making in Agricultural and Resource Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Water into Wine and Cheese: Implications of Substitution and Trade for California’s Perennial Water Woes

      • Daniel A. Sumner, Qianyao Pan
      Pages 173-188

    3. Climate Policies as Water Policies

      • Kazim Konyar, George Frisvold
      Pages 189-211

    4. Enhancing Productivity and Market Access for Key Staples in the EAC Region: An Economic Analysis of Biophysical and Market Potential

      • Siwa Msangi, Kennedy Were, Bernard Musana, Joseph Mudiope, Leonidas Dusengemungu, Lucas Tanui et al.
      Pages 213-260
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About this book

This book assesses recent developments in the analysis of agricultural policy and water resource management, and highlights the utility and theoretical rigor of quantitative methods for modeling agricultural production, market dynamics, and natural resource management. In diverse case studies of the intersection between agriculture, environmental quality and natural resource sustainability, the authors analyze economic behavior - both at aggregate as well as at individual agent-level - in order to highlight the practical implications for decision-markers dealing with environmental and agricultural policy. The volume also addresses the challenges of doing robust analysis with limited data, and discusses the appropriate empirical approaches that can be employed. 
The studies in this book were inspired by the work of Richard E. Howitt, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of California at Davis, USA, whose career has focused on the applicationof robust empirical methods to address concrete policy problems. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • Silver Spring, USA

    Siwa Msangi

  • ERA Economics Consulting , Davis, USA

    Duncan MacEwan

About the editors

Siwa Msangi is a private consultant in Silver Spring, MD, USA. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) under IFPRI's Natural Resource Management research theme until 2018. Siwa’s research at IFPRI focused on the major socio-economic and bio-physical drivers affecting agricultural production systems, and their impacts on trade, nutrition, poverty and the environment. He led project-specific work on the sustainable intensification of agriculture and the complex interactions between agriculture and energy. While his broader research background in natural resource management focuses on surface and groundwater management policies, his most recent research centers on livestock and aquatic production systems, and their interaction with the environment. 

Duncan MacEwan specializes in water resources, agriculture, mathematical modeling, andstatistical analysis. He enjoys collaborating with interdisciplinary project teams and has extensive experience working with clients to estimate local and regional economic impacts, in addition to applying federal planning principles and water project evaluation guidelines. He is an expert on regional economic modeling and a primary collaborator on the development of the Statewide Agricultural Production Model (SWAP). He has assisted both federal and state agencies in implementing the SWAP model for large-scale project planning and impact analysis, in addition to assisting with benefit-cost analyses, EIR/EIS preparation, and project evaluation. His current project interests include integrated groundwater and economic modeling to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of implementing California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

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