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Technology, market policies and institutional reform for sustainable land use in southern Mali

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  • Arie Kuyvenhoven
  • Ruerd Ruben
  • Gideon Kruseman

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To identify appropriate interventions that support sustainable land use; a farm household modelling approach is applied to analyze micro‐economic supply reactions to various policy measures. The modelling framework links agro‐technical and economic data, and takes both production and consumption decisions into account, allowing land use and production technology adjustments in accordance with farm household objectives. Different types of farm households are distinguished on the basis of their resource endowments, savings coefficients and time discount rate. Actual and alternative (sustainable) cropping and livestock activities for different weather regimes are defined for southern Mali. The effects on sustainable land use and expected farm household welfare of adopting alternative technologies and modifying prices, transaction costs, access to credit and land taxes are demonstrated. Even with full information on sustainable technologies, strong policy interventions are required to halt soil degradation. Structural policies proved to be more effective than price policies to reduce soil degradation while maintaining positive income effects. When prices are determined endogenously, structural policy loses some effectiveness as an incentive for sustainable land use due to the effect of additional supply on local cereal and meat Prices.

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  • Arie Kuyvenhoven & Ruerd Ruben & Gideon Kruseman, 1998. "Technology, market policies and institutional reform for sustainable land use in southern Mali," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 19(1-2), pages 53-62, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:agecon:v:19:y:1998:i:1-2:p:53-62
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1998.tb00514.x
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    1. Ruben, Ruerd & van Ruijven, Arjan, 2001. "Technical coefficients for bio-economic farm household models: a meta-modelling approach with applications for Southern Mali," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 427-441, March.
    2. Vitale, Jeffrey D. & Lee, John G., 2005. "Land Degradation in the Sahel: An Application of Biophysical Modeling in the Optimal Control Setting," 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI 19494, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    3. Kuyvenhoven, Arie, 2004. "Creating an enabling environment: policy conditions for less-favored areas," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 29(4), pages 407-429, August.
    4. Barrett, Christopher B. & Brown, Douglas R., 2002. "Agriculture And Rural Development: Lessons For Christian Groups Combating Persistent Poverty," Working Papers 14738, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.

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