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We estimate the risk attitudes of a large sample of individuals from various fishing communities along the west coast of South Africa. Female fishers and rights holders are found to be more risk…
14 November 2011 | Peer Reviewed | South AfricaInitiatives certifying that producers of goods and services adhere to defined environmental and social-welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, these initiatives…
9 November 2011 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaAddressing environmental challenges. including climate change has been rationalized in China as both necessary for solving domestic problems and capable of gaining new business opportunities and…
6 November 2011 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaThis case study looks at the impacts of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity’s Toro 3 hydroelectric project and its affects on the Recreo Verde tourism center in San Carlos, Costa Rica. Choice…
24 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaThe risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing a productive landscape, and is of course hard to estimate, or even “guesstimate”…
24 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaThis study undertook an assessment and gap analysis of the institutional arrangements for improved land and water management in the Tana and Beles Sub-basins highlands of the Blue Nile Basin. We…
24 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaDecentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector. However, researchers and policy makers tend to ignore a key question: what do forest farmers really want from reform…
21 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaSince the 1960s both large- and small-scale Zimbabwean maize farmers have been replacing open pollinated varieties (OPVs) with locally developed hybrids. By the 1990s, most were buying hybrid seed…
12 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | South AfricaThere is growing interest in the potential for business to make proactive contributions to food security, particularly as part of some form of cross-sector collaboration. Such collaboration can…
12 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | South AfricaThe paper tested for the relationship between three different measures of efficiency and the degree of openness to trade for a sample of countries from Latin America and the Caribbean plus the Unites…
26 September 2011 | Peer Reviewed | Central America