Environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern Tanzania

This paper develops a soil conservation model that is relevant to smallholder farmers who apply little or no fertilizer. Empirical results drawn from northern Tanzania imply that, ignoring fertility mining problem in model specification leads to overestimation of profits for farms that apply little...

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Autores principales: Nkonya, Ephraim M., Barkley, Andrew P., Hamilton, Stephen F., Bernardo, Daniel J.
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 1999
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159259
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author Nkonya, Ephraim M.
Barkley, Andrew P.
Hamilton, Stephen F.
Bernardo, Daniel J.
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description This paper develops a soil conservation model that is relevant to smallholder farmers who apply little or no fertilizer. Empirical results drawn from northern Tanzania imply that, ignoring fertility mining problem in model specification leads to overestimation of profits for farms that apply little or no fertilizer. The model also shows that, the impact of output price on soil conservation efforts depends on the curvature of the soil erosion function.
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spelling CGSpace1592592024-11-14T11:36:35Z Environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern Tanzania Nkonya, Ephraim M. Barkley, Andrew P. Hamilton, Stephen F. Bernardo, Daniel J. soil degradation soil fertility environmental impact economic situation This paper develops a soil conservation model that is relevant to smallholder farmers who apply little or no fertilizer. Empirical results drawn from northern Tanzania imply that, ignoring fertility mining problem in model specification leads to overestimation of profits for farms that apply little or no fertilizer. The model also shows that, the impact of output price on soil conservation efforts depends on the curvature of the soil erosion function. 1999-08 2024-11-05T15:23:02Z 2024-11-05T15:23:02Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159259 en Open Access Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Nkonya, Ephraim M.; Barkley, Andrew P.; Hamilton, Stephen F.; and Bernardo, Daniel J. 1999. Environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern Tanzania. Presented at the 1999 AAEA Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN. https://purl.umn.edu/21623
spellingShingle soil degradation
soil fertility
environmental impact
economic situation
Nkonya, Ephraim M.
Barkley, Andrew P.
Hamilton, Stephen F.
Bernardo, Daniel J.
Environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern Tanzania
title Environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern Tanzania
title_full Environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern Tanzania
title_fullStr Environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed Environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern Tanzania
title_short Environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern Tanzania
title_sort environmental and economic impacts of soil erosion and fertility mining in northern tanzania
topic soil degradation
soil fertility
environmental impact
economic situation
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159259
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