Purpose: In this article we illustrate the importance of understanding the risk profiles of new technologies, in addition to the changes in productivity, to be able to determine strategies for agricultural development. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis is based on data obtained from a 2002 survey of subsistence farmers in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania, and a Just and Pope (1978) fr...

Abstract Much has been written about climate change from an ethical view in general, but less it a libertarian point of particular. In this paper, I apply the moral theory to problem change. focus on libertarianism’s implications for our individual emissions. argue that (i) even if emissions cause no harm others, these cross other people’s boundaries, (ii) although boundary-crossings are due ‘s...

a r t i c l e i n f o Rural areas often have more than one regime of property rights and production. Large, private-property farms owned by powerful landowners coexist with subsistence peasants who farm small plots with limited property rights. At the same time, there is broad consensus that individual, well-specified and secure property rights over land improve economic outcomes. If property r...

This paper examines the impact of early market integration on the extraction of forest resources by traditional forest-based households, with emphasis on the commercial-subsistence dichotomy. Empirical analysis of resource use transition among the Huaorani People of the Ecuadorian Amazon shows that as markets become more accessible production patterns change but do not seem to affect subsistenc...

This thesis was an interdisciplinary investigation with the goal of balancing the conservation of wildlife habitat with road access for subsistence hunting in Yakutat, Alaska. The problem posed by land managers and subsistence moose hunters revolved around the use of offhighway vehicles (OHVs; e.g. “four-wheelers”) for subsistence moose hunting and the potential disturbance OHVs have on moose. ...