Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link

Small-scale farmers face numerous challenges to invest in natural resource management practices. The problems are interlinked, with such perverse economic problems as high transaction costs and risk rooted in the lack of comprehensive institutional and organizational services to farmers for risk red...

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Main Authors: Getnet, Kindie, Pfeifer, Catherine, MacAlister, C.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44929
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author Getnet, Kindie
Pfeifer, Catherine
MacAlister, C.
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description Small-scale farmers face numerous challenges to invest in natural resource management practices. The problems are interlinked, with such perverse economic problems as high transaction costs and risk rooted in the lack of comprehensive institutional and organizational services to farmers for risk reduction and incentive creation. Failure to address such a missing link undermines success in natural resource management. This paper ponders the importance of such a missing link and proposes analytic framework that explicitly integrates the economics of natural resource management into institutional and organizational analysis. The framework features the instrumentality of integrated institutional and organizational innovation to create opportunities and incentives to small-scale farmers to encourage investment in natural resource management practices.
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spelling CGSpace449292025-11-13T10:38:44Z Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link Getnet, Kindie Pfeifer, Catherine MacAlister, C. farming systems natural resources management transaction costs Small-scale farmers face numerous challenges to invest in natural resource management practices. The problems are interlinked, with such perverse economic problems as high transaction costs and risk rooted in the lack of comprehensive institutional and organizational services to farmers for risk reduction and incentive creation. Failure to address such a missing link undermines success in natural resource management. This paper ponders the importance of such a missing link and proposes analytic framework that explicitly integrates the economics of natural resource management into institutional and organizational analysis. The framework features the instrumentality of integrated institutional and organizational innovation to create opportunities and incentives to small-scale farmers to encourage investment in natural resource management practices. 2014-12 2014-10-07T09:15:18Z 2014-10-07T09:15:18Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44929 en Limited Access Elsevier Getnet, K., Pfeifer, C., & MacAlister, C. (2014). Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link. In Ecological Economics (Vol. 108, pp. 1–7). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.09.018
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MacAlister, C.
Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link
title Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link
title_full Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link
title_fullStr Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link
title_full_unstemmed Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link
title_short Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link
title_sort economic incentives and natural resource management among small scale farmers addressing the missing link
topic farming systems
natural resources management
transaction costs
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44929
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