Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level
This paper introduces a modeling method which simulates a village's response to population and market pressure. The method combines a linear programming model with a biophysical model of soil condition and plant growth. The linear programming model simulates farmers' plans aggregated at the village...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
1996
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| author | Barbier, Bruno |
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| description | This paper introduces a modeling method which simulates a village's response to population and market pressure. The method combines a linear programming model with a biophysical model of soil condition and plant growth. The linear programming model simulates farmers' plans aggregated at the village level, and the biophysical model predicts yields and land degradation for different land use and cropping patterns. The method has been calibrated for two villages located in a semi-arid and a sub-humid savanna region in Burkina Faso in West Africa. Several simulations are carried out to the year 2030. Sensitivity tests are used to isolate the main factors of intensification, particularly to distinguish between the effects of ""population-pressure driven"" intensification from that of ""market driven"" intensification. |
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| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 1996 |
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| spelling | CGSpace1572062025-11-06T07:26:38Z Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level Barbier, Bruno population growth research methodology This paper introduces a modeling method which simulates a village's response to population and market pressure. The method combines a linear programming model with a biophysical model of soil condition and plant growth. The linear programming model simulates farmers' plans aggregated at the village level, and the biophysical model predicts yields and land degradation for different land use and cropping patterns. The method has been calibrated for two villages located in a semi-arid and a sub-humid savanna region in Burkina Faso in West Africa. Several simulations are carried out to the year 2030. Sensitivity tests are used to isolate the main factors of intensification, particularly to distinguish between the effects of ""population-pressure driven"" intensification from that of ""market driven"" intensification. 1996 2024-10-24T12:48:05Z 2024-10-24T12:48:05Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157206 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Barbier, Bruno. 1996. Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level. EPTD Discussion Paper 21. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157206 |
| spellingShingle | population growth research methodology Barbier, Bruno Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level |
| title | Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level |
| title_full | Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level |
| title_fullStr | Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level |
| title_short | Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa: bioeconomic modeling at the village level |
| title_sort | impact of market and population pressure on production incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of west africa bioeconomic modeling at the village level |
| topic | population growth research methodology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157206 |
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