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Less Favored Areas Under Pressure: Conditional Incentive Based Approach To Deal With Externalities, Gideon Kruseman

Gideon Kruseman

Less favoured areas are characterized by having relatively high population densities compared to the carrying capacity of the natural resources, in combination with poor market access and adverse agro-climatic conditions. Very often less favoured areas face external pressures due to high population growth, climatic change and globalisation with unequal benefits. The result is that more often than not, less favoured areas move into development pathways consisting of a vicious circle of environmental degradation and poverty.

In this paper we argue that conditional incentive based rural development where positive incentives are used as income support to targeted populations in less favoured …

Ex-Ante Evaluation Of Tightening Environmental Policy: The Case Of Mineral Use In Dutch Agriculture, Gideon Kruseman, Pieter Willem Blokland, Harry H. Luesink, Hans Vrolijk

Gideon Kruseman

Non-point source pollution is notoriously difficult to asses. A relevant example is mineral emissions in the Netherlands. Since the mid 1980s the Dutch government has sought to reduce emissions through a wide variety of measures, the effect of which in turn is monitored using modeling techniques. This paper presents the current generation of mineral emission models from agriculture based on micro-simulation of farms in combination with a spatial equilibrium model for the dispersion of manure from excess regions with high livestock intensities within the country to areas with low livestock intensities. The micro-simulation approach retains the richness in the heterogeneity …

Conditional Incentives As A Basis For Rural Development In Egypt, Gideon Kruseman

Gideon Kruseman

policy bvrief concerning outcomes of conference “Developing Policy Towards Dynamic Rural Areas in Egypt” held on June 16th 2008, focusing on four important components: agricultural competitiveness, environment and countryside, economic diversification and quality of rural life and local institutional capacity.

Bioeconomic Household Modelling For Agricultural Intensification, Gideon Kruseman

Gideon Kruseman

The study develops a bio-economic modelling framework that permits simultaneous assessment of the effects of technology change and policy measures on household welfare and agro-ecological sustainability indicators. The bio-economic modelling framework expands traditional farm household models to incorporate direct consumption utility functions, to allow for multiple objectives and to permit a meaningful interface with biophysical process models. The resulting model combines econometrically estimated equations in a mathematical programming framework. Model outcomes are analysed using metamodelling tecyhniques.

The bio-economic modelling framework is relevant for policy analysis related to resource degradation in developing countries. The model is applied to Cercle de Koutiala …