Investments in Land Conservation in the Ethiopian Highlands: A Household Plot-Level Analysis of the Roles of Poverty, Tenure Security, and Market Inventives
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Keywords
Ethiopia; land conservation; poverty; tenure security;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2010-04-11 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2010-04-11 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2010-04-11 (Development)
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