Policy modelling of the trade-off between agricultural development and land degradation—the Sudan case

Abdelgalil, E.; Cohen, Shimrit

doi:10.1016/s0161-8938(01)00089-8

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“…Within economic structures that encourage land concentration, private land ownership and unrestricted land markets can be damaging for the environment (Pender 1998). Economic policies can create incentives for ''throw away'' patterns of resource exploitation, in which resources are mined for short-term profit (Abdelgalil and Cohen 2001).…”

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Territorial disparities, natural resource distribution, and land degradation: a case study in southern Europe

Salvati

Zitti

2007

GeoJournal

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the territorial disparities in some socio-economic and environmental factors involved in land degradation (LD) processes in a dry Mediterranean region. A simplified framework in which ecological and economic factors may increase inequality in natural resource distribution along the elevation gradient and accelerate LD is illustrated. To test at a local scale if territorial disparities observed in such factors have increased in the last period, we studied changes in LD sensitivity over thirty years in Latium, central Italy, a region prone to soil degradation phenomena. An estimate of LD sensitivity at the municipality level was obtained through a synthetic index (ISD) composed by three partial indicators analysing respectively climate and soil conditions (CLI), land use characteristics (LAN), and human pressure (POP). ISD and the three partial indicators were computed separately for 1970 and 2000. The divergence in LD sensitivity among coastal and inland areas significantly increased over the study period. In the former zones, median ISD increased with a reduction in score variability among municipalities; the reverse pattern was observed in the latter zones. Differences in ISD score among the elevation gradient are especially due to human factors affecting land use changes and agriculture intensification. New findings to be achieved in the context of human impacts on the environment as an original contribution to the study of LD at a local scale were finally delineated.

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Territorial disparities, natural resource distribution, and land degradation: a case study in southern Europe

Salvati

Zitti

2007

GeoJournal

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“…Sudan is one of the wealthiest countries in Africa in terms of natural resources; it has 7% of the continent's cropland, 13% of its pasture land and 10% of its livestock, in addition to plenty of water resources in the wetter parts of the country (Ayoub 1999;Harmer 2004). Although Sudan is considered to be very rich and diverse in land potential, it is also subject to considerable ecological risks, particularly land degradation (Abdelgalil and Cohen 2001).…”

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Challenges and possibilities for achieving household food security in the Western Sudan region: the role of female farmers

Ibnouf

2011

Food Sec.

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This paper investigates the role of women in achieving household food security in the Western Region of Sudan, an area much affected by the impacts of drought and civil conflicts. The study is based on a quantitative survey and qualitative focus group discussions, supported by personal observations made during fieldwork. Additionally, the study draws upon secondary data that is publicly available. Results demonstrate that women play a major role in producing and providing food for their households in this high-risk climate and conflict area, while men are more likely to migrate seasonally and even permanently. In addition, women are responsible for food preparation, processing, and food preservation and are wholly responsible for attending to household garden plots. They therefore contribute more to household food security than men, though this contribution is not recognized in official statistics. The study findings indicate that the main problems women face as food producers and providers are a lack of access to the full package of improved production methods (improved seeds, fertilizers, modern farming methods, credit services, pesticides, appropriate technologies, and marketing facilities), in addition to gender disparities and gender-biased traditions. The impacts of natural crises and civil conflicts are gendered and therefore the responses to these crises must be gender responsive. Holistic and strategic policies and plans that take gender issues into account are thus needed in order to achieve food security.

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“…Most of the literatures focus on the taxation and agriculture area (Robert, 1995;Jensen, 2000;Jeroen et al, 2007) with a general use of computable general equilibrium model (CGE) analysis (Meagher, 1990;Rutherford and Paltsev, 1999;Karadag and Westaway, 1999) and the changeable objects from developed to developing countries like Sudan (Abdelgalil and Cohen, 2001), Costa Rica (Persson, 1995), Iran (Hosseini et al, 2004a;2009b) and China (Deng et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2010) etc. Most of the articles aboard are based on individual case studies.…”

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The temporal and spatial evaluation on China’s agricultural policy output since 1978

Zhang

Wang

2011

J. Geogr. Sci.

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Since reform and opening up, how much contribution has China's implementation of new agricultural policy made to agricultural output? This paper is trying to establish an agricultural policy output econometric model for doing a quantitative analysis of China's new agricultural policy. The results show that China's agricultural policies on agricultural output have an average contribution rate of about 7% since 1978, which is consistent with the OECD's basic forecast. There are obvious temporal and spatial differences. Generally speaking, we can divide the contribution of agricultural policy into three periods, which are the start-up phase from 1978 to 1991 (14 years), the stationary phase from 1992 to 2002 (11 years) and the rising phase from 2003 to 2008 (6 years). In space, the contribution of agricultural policy underwent a process from the all-low in the start-up phase, the gradual increase in the stationary phase to the all-high in the rising phase. Northern and western regions are more sensitive to policies. There are three major factors that can affect the contribution of regional agricultural policies, which are the process of national industrialization strategy, terrain and the level of local finance.

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Policy modelling of the trade-off between agricultural development and land degradation—the Sudan case

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Territorial disparities, natural resource distribution, and land degradation: a case study in southern Europe

Territorial disparities, natural resource distribution, and land degradation: a case study in southern Europe

Challenges and possibilities for achieving household food security in the Western Sudan region: the role of female farmers

The temporal and spatial evaluation on China’s agricultural policy output since 1978

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