Improving Welfare Through Climate-Friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 243-263

  Alem, Yonas ^a   Eggert, Håkan ^a   Ruhinduka, Remidius ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Adaptation to climate change; Endogenous switching regression; Impact evaluation; System of rice intensification; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMMERCE; COSTS; PROFITABILITY; RAIN;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; ENDOGENOUS SWITCHING; IMPACT EVALUATION; SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATIONS; TANZANIA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMISSION CONTROL; METHANE; PADDY FIELD; PROFITABILITY; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RICE; SMALLHOLDER; WATER USE;

TANZANIA;

EID: 84943360021     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-015-9962-5     Document Type: Article

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