Wildlife Conservation in Zambia: Impacts on Rural Household Welfare

FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH PROJECT Wildlife Conservation in Zambia: Impacts on Rural Household Welfare

We wish to acknowledge the World Bank and the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) for the use of household survey data. Ms. Betty Msimuko from the Zambia Wildlife Authority provided useful information related to community-based natural resource management and facilitated field site visits in game management areas. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish Inter...

Multidimensional Household Food Security Measurement in Rural Zambia

The Effect of Raising Electricity Price on Welfare of the Household Sector in Rural Areas of Guilan Province, Iran

Present study investigates the effect of soaring residential electricity price on the welfare of rural individuals in Guilan Province by Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) in which the elasticity’s and welfare variations were calculated by Compensation Variations (CV) and Equivalent Variations (EV) for the time period of 1991-2012. It was shown that the absolute value of income and price elastic...

Early Evidence on Conservation Farming in Zambia

Conservation farming (CF) offers a set of sustainable agronomic practices for Zambian smallholder farmers using either hand hoe or animal draft tillage. The CF package includes dry-season land preparation using minimum tillage methods (hand hoe basins or ADP ripping), crop residue retention, precision input application (in a precise grid of planting basins or along rip lines), and nitrogen-fixi...

Determinants and impacts of international remittances on household welfare in Vietnam.

Remittances can potentially help to promote economic development by providing a mechanism to share risks, reduce poverty and improve equality. However, from the viewpoint of economic theory the overall impacts of remittances are uncertain, as different mechanisms lead to opposite impacts. Since the 1990s Vietnam has experienced a dramatic growth in remittance flows from abroad. Vietnam is a uni...