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Title: | An Analysis of externalities in agroforestry systems in the presence of land degradation | Contributor(s): | Cacho, OJ (author) | Publication Date: | 2001 | DOI: | 10.1016/S0921-8009(01)00203-8 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/241 | Abstract: | Agroforestry can help prevent land degradation while allowing continuing use of land to produce crops and livestock on a sustainable basis. Despite the recognition that trees may have a high environmental value at the local level and the attention agroforestry has received as a tool for sustainable agricultural development, there is a lack of formal economic analyses on the role of agroforestry; this need is addressed in this study. A general economic analysis of an agroforestry operation on land prone to degradation and in the presence of positive forest externalities is developed. A numerical application is presented, based on a biophysical model of a watershed. The model is used to assess the value of forest externalities and the marginal cost of land degradation. The potential cost of incentives required to achieve a given target level of land productivity is estimated. The technique illustrated in this paper could be used to provide cost estimates that would serve as a basis for initial negotiations between stakeholders in a watershed wishing to establish a common-property approach to land management. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Ecological Economics, 39(1), p. 131-143 | Publisher: | Elsevier BV | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1873-6106 0921-8009 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 140205 Environment and Resource Economics | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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