Impacts of natural resource management technologies on agricultural yield and household income: The system of rice intensification in Timor Leste

Ecological Economics

Volumn 85, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-68

  Noltze, Martin ^a   Schwarze, Stefan ^a   Qaim, Matin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endogenous switching regression; Impact assessment; Smallholder farmers; SRI; Timor Leste

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGROECOLOGY; CROP YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; NATURAL RESOURCE; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RICE; SMALLHOLDER;

LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES; TIMOR; TIMOR-LESTE;

EID: 84870548933     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.10.009     Document Type: Short Survey

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