For 473 km2 of farmland surrounding Kakamega Forest in western Kenya, QuickBird satellite imagery has been analyzed by an object-based image analysis approach. Preprocessing involved atmospheric/orographic correction as well as mosaicing and was followed by ground truthing and visual interpretation. Segmentation was optimized using a newly introduced ‘area fitness rate’ as a discrepancy method ...

We analyse the effect of violence and rebellion on the evolution of household welfare. We collected new panel data for Burundi (1999-2007) in which we reinterviewed original as well as newly formed households (split-offs). We use several definitions of the household as unit of analysis and test for resource pooling between parental and split-off households. Focusing on the effect of civil war, ...

Between 1906 and 1917 China (under the Imperial and then Republican regimes) enacted a highly effective intervention to suppress the production of opium. Evidence from British Foreign Office records suggest that the intervention was centred, in many areas, upon a highly repressive incarnation of law enforcement in which rural populations had their property destroyed, their land confiscated and/...

Over the past several decades, significant donor funding has been directed to sustainable forest management in the tropics, in the hope of combining forest conservation with economic gains through sustainable use. To date, this approach has produced only modest results in terms of changed silvicultural and land-use practices in this area. Direct payments for environmental services (PES) have be...

Background: Arcotheres purpureus, a species of pea crab has been reported from the Red Sea, Maldives and Andaman Sea with no description of the male. According to existing literature the single host for this species is Ostrea. Methods: The specimens examined were obtained from the dredge hauls. Results: In the present study we report Arcotheres purpureus for the first time from the coastal wate...

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the purpose of this research was socioeconomicanalysis of farms using primary data in two villages of mymensingh sadar. a total of 60 farms including 20 small, 20 medium and 20 large were randomly selected for the study. socioeconomic analysis showed that indebtedness was higher in large farms than those of small and medium ones. large farms also engaged more in farm activities than others. all...