Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia
Land is an essential factor of production. Institutions that govern its efficient use determine the sustainability of this essential resource. In Ethiopia all land is publicly owned. Such an institutional setting is said to have resulted in the major degradation of Ethiopia's land resources and diss...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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| author | Gebreegziabher, Z. Gebremedhin, Berhanu Mekonnen, A. |
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| description | Land is an essential factor of production. Institutions that govern its efficient use determine the sustainability of this essential resource. In Ethiopia all land is publicly owned. Such an institutional setting is said to have resulted in the major degradation of Ethiopia's land resources and dissipation of the resource rent. An alternative to this is assigning a private property institution. In this paper, we examine the consumer welfare effects of a change in the institutional setting on communal forest and grazing lands, using a cross-section data set of 200 households in Northern Ethiopia. Findings suggest that changing the current institutional setting could indeed be welfare reducing. |
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| spelling | CGSpace102242024-11-15T08:52:11Z Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia Gebreegziabher, Z. Gebremedhin, Berhanu Mekonnen, A. Land is an essential factor of production. Institutions that govern its efficient use determine the sustainability of this essential resource. In Ethiopia all land is publicly owned. Such an institutional setting is said to have resulted in the major degradation of Ethiopia's land resources and dissipation of the resource rent. An alternative to this is assigning a private property institution. In this paper, we examine the consumer welfare effects of a change in the institutional setting on communal forest and grazing lands, using a cross-section data set of 200 households in Northern Ethiopia. Findings suggest that changing the current institutional setting could indeed be welfare reducing. 2012-02 2011-10-09T13:58:53Z 2011-10-09T13:58:53Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/10224 en Limited Access Cambridge University Press Gebreegziabher, Z., Gebremedhin, B. and Mekonnen, A. 2012. Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia. Environment and Development Economics 17(1): 21-40 |
| spellingShingle | Gebreegziabher, Z. Gebremedhin, Berhanu Mekonnen, A. Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia |
| title | Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia |
| title_full | Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia |
| title_short | Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in northern Ethiopia |
| title_sort | institutions sustainable land use and consumer welfare the case of forest and grazing lands in northern ethiopia |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/10224 |
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