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Institutional foundations of agricultural development in Ethiopia: drawing lessons from current practice for agricultural R&D Ghent University
The historical emphasis on technological innovation as a pathway to rural development has obscured the institutional foundations of development U+2013 in this case, the role of local and external organizations in shaping patterns of benefits capture. Agrarian communities have a host of ways in which they self-organize to buffer themselves from economic hardship, facilitate access to limited resources and foster social cohesiveness. Yet these ...
Does rural energy poverty alleviation really reduce agricultural carbon emissions? The case of China Ghent University
Energy poverty has led to far-reaching global environmental issues as it can exacerbate carbon emissions, particularly in the rural areas. Alleviating rural energy poverty might be a potentially effective way to mitigate this problem. Accordingly, this paper proposes a novel and comprehensive measurement of Rural Energy Poverty Alleviation (REPA) of 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2017. The overall REPA index has increased from 2000 to 2017, ...
A new institutional economics approach to evaluate management options for wetlands: the case of Kilombero Valley wetlands in Tanzania Ghent University
Redefining landscape economics: a proposal to integrate economics approaches and landscape disciplines Ghent University
Using production economics for relating animal diseases with farm performances Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Een veranderende socio-economische omgeving daagt melkveehouders uit competitief te blijven en de diergezondheid op het bedrijf te verhogen. Het maken van de juiste economisch-epidemiologische beslissing vraagt om een interdisciplinaire aanpak die zich focust op het individuele bedrijf. Bij productieziekten in melkvee is de melkveehouder de beslissingsnemer, omdat productieziekten meestal worden veroorzaakt door management. Vaak worden ...
Economics of reducing Campylobacter at different levels within the Belgian poultry meat Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Campylobacter infections pose a serious public health problem in Belgium. Poultry meat is most likely responsible for 40% of human campylobacteriosis cases in Belgium. On a yearly basis, consumption of poultry meat causes at least 22,000 campylobacteriosis cases, with a cost of illness of (sic)10.9 million. Several intervention measures have been proposed in literature, aiming to reduce the contamination of poultry meat and thus lead to ...