Economic Policy and Sustainable Land Use

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Economic Policy Reforms and Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries: Issues and Approaches

   • Nico Heerink, Arie Kuyvenhoven, Maarten S. van Wijk

   Pages 1-20

3. Soil Degradation and Agricultural Production: Economic and Biophysical Approaches

   • Gideon Kruseman, Herman van Keulen

   Pages 21-48

4. Technical Options for Agricultural Development in the Ethiopian Highlands: A Model of Crop-Livestock Interactions

   • Ayele A. Abiye, Jens B. Aune

   Pages 49-57

5. Land Degradation as a Transformation Process in an Intertemporal Welfare Optimisation Framework

   • Peter J. Albersen, Laixiang Sun

   Pages 59-72

6. Population Pressure and Land Degradation in the Ethiopian Highlands: A Bio-Economic Model with Endogenous Soil Degradation

   • Bekele Shiferaw, Stein Holden, Jens Aune

   Pages 73-92

7. Imperfect Food Markets and Household Adoption of Soil Conservation Practices in the Dominican Republic Highlands: Household Probit and Duration Models

   • Bénédicte de la Brière

   Pages 93-114

8. Soil Conservation and Imperfect Labour Markets in El Salvador: an Empirical Application of a Dynamic Control Model of Farm Production

   • Claudia B. Romano

   Pages 115-134

9. Assessing the Effects of Policy Measures on Household Welfare and Agro-Ecological Sustainability: an Overview of Farm Household Modelling Approaches

   • Gideon Kruseman

   Pages 135-150

10. Agricultural Prices and Land Degradation in Koutiala, Mali: a Regional Simulation Model Based on Farmers’ Decision Rules

    • Tjark Struif Bontkes

    Pages 151-168

11. Integrating Site-Specific Biophysical and Economic Models to Assess Trade-offs in Sustainable Land Use and Soil Quality

    • John M. Antle, Jetse Stoorvogel

    Pages 169-184

12. Effects of Land Degradation in a Diversified Economy with Local Staple and Labour Markets: A Village-Town CGE Analysis from Mexico

    • George Dyer, Antonio Yunez-Naude, J. Edward Taylor

    Pages 185-197

13. Agricultural Production and Erosion in a Small Watershed in Honduras: a Non-Linear Programming Approach

    • Bruno Barbier

    Pages 199-209

14. Alternative Approaches to the Economics of Soil Nutrient Depletion in Costa Rica: Exploratory, Predictive and Normative Bio-Economic Models

    • Hans G. P. Jansen, Robert A. Schipper, Peter Roebeling, Erwin H. Bulte, Huib Hengsdijk, Bas A. M. Bouman et al.

    Pages 211-237

15. Effects of Economic Policies on Farmers, Consumers and Soil Degradation: a Recursively Dynamic Sector Model with an Application for Burkina Faso

    • Daniel Deybe

    Pages 239-253

16. Soil Degradation in Macro CGE Models

    • Solveig Glomsrod

    Pages 255-267

17. The Effect of Soil Degradation on Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: a Non-Parametric Regression Analysis

    • Michiel A. Keyzer, Ben G. J. S. Sonneveld

    Pages 269-292

18. Between Free Riders and Free Raiders: Property Rights and Soil Degradation in Context

    • Franz von Benda-Beckmann

    Pages 293-316

19. Land Rights, Farmers’ Investment, and Sustainable Land Use: Modelling Approaches and Empirical Evidence

    • Ruerd Ruben, Marrit van den Berg, Tan Shuhao

    Pages 317-334

20. Assessing Social Factors in Sustainable Land-Use Management: Social Capital and Common Land Development in Rajasthan, India

    • Anirudh Krishna, Norman Uphoff

    Pages 335-350

Since the 1980s many developing countries have implemented macro-economic policy reforms to curb inflation, reduce fiscal deficits and control foreign debt. The policy instruments used, such as exchange rate adjustment, budget cuts, trade policy reforms, public expenditure reviews and privatisation, have different and sometimes opposite consequences for agricultural land use. During the same period awareness was growing that deteriorating soil quality could become a limiting factor to increase or even sustain agricultural production. As a result, food availability and even accessibility for large population groups in developing countries may be jeopardised in the near future. Recently, quantitative models have made useful contributions to understanding the impact of economic policy reforms on the sustainability of land use. They provide a consistent analytical framework to deal with complex issues such as the direct and indirect effects of economic, agricultural, environmental and population policies, the role of market imperfections in transmitting economic policy signals, and the interactions between soil quality, agricultural production and household economic decision making. Different types of models can be distinguished: bio­ economic models, focussing on the link between farm household decisions and the agricultural resource base, household and village models, examining the impact of the socio-economic environment on farm household decisions, and more aggregate models, analysing interactions between sectors and their implications for sustainable land use.

• Agrarwissenschaft
• Agronomy
• Agrosystems Research
• Alter
• Developing Countries
• Entwicklungsökonomik
• Nachhaltige Landnutzung
• Soil Science
• Sustainable Land Use
• development
• development economics
• population
• production
• sustainability
• Ökonomik

• Department of Economics and Management, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  Nico Heerink, Marijke Kuiper

• Plant Research International, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  Herman Keulen

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