Environment: Revitalizing, restoring, and improving rural areas

Rural areas are critical to the provision of ecosystem services. This chapter explores how economic incentives, innovations, and appropriate institutions can help to address rural environmental degradation and contribute to the health of the planet. Key examples include payments for ecosystem servic...

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Autores principales: Ringler, Claudia, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146882
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description Rural areas are critical to the provision of ecosystem services. This chapter explores how economic incentives, innovations, and appropriate institutions can help to address rural environmental degradation and contribute to the health of the planet. Key examples include payments for ecosystem services and removal of environmentally damaging subsidies for electricity, fuels, fertilizer, irrigation water, and other scarce inputs. Innovations such as water harvesting and precision farming can improve agricultural production while conserving scarce resources. Institutional changes that can help motivate and coordinate action for environmental improvement include legal recognition of the rights of rural men, women, and communities to land, water, forests, and fisheries.
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spelling CGSpace1468822025-11-06T05:23:38Z Environment: Revitalizing, restoring, and improving rural areas Ringler, Claudia Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. rural development strategies food policies nutrition policies agricultural policies sustainability natural resources management institutional reform agricultural development rural development food security rural areas ecosystem services environmental degradation climate change Rural areas are critical to the provision of ecosystem services. This chapter explores how economic incentives, innovations, and appropriate institutions can help to address rural environmental degradation and contribute to the health of the planet. Key examples include payments for ecosystem services and removal of environmentally damaging subsidies for electricity, fuels, fertilizer, irrigation water, and other scarce inputs. Innovations such as water harvesting and precision farming can improve agricultural production while conserving scarce resources. Institutional changes that can help motivate and coordinate action for environmental improvement include legal recognition of the rights of rural men, women, and communities to land, water, forests, and fisheries. 2019-02-27 2024-06-21T09:09:17Z 2024-06-21T09:09:17Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146882 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293502 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ringler, Claudia; and Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela. 2019. Environment: Revitalizing, restoring, and improving rural areas. In 2019 Global food policy report. Chapter 6, Pp. 52-59. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146882
spellingShingle rural development strategies
food policies
nutrition policies
agricultural policies
sustainability
natural resources management
institutional reform
agricultural development
rural development
food security
rural areas
ecosystem services
environmental degradation
climate change
Ringler, Claudia
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
Environment: Revitalizing, restoring, and improving rural areas
title Environment: Revitalizing, restoring, and improving rural areas
title_full Environment: Revitalizing, restoring, and improving rural areas
title_fullStr Environment: Revitalizing, restoring, and improving rural areas
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title_short Environment: Revitalizing, restoring, and improving rural areas
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topic rural development strategies
food policies
nutrition policies
agricultural policies
sustainability
natural resources management
institutional reform
agricultural development
rural development
food security
rural areas
ecosystem services
environmental degradation
climate change
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