As soils across the globe continue to face problems of severe degradation and loss under
current management practices, there is a great need to study soil conservation decisions …

The distinctive nature of environmental quality problems in agriculture—an industry based
on the extraction of highly variable natural resources under stochastic conditions—has …

Economic growth and trade liberalization decrease the degradation of natural resources if
and only if producers internalize their stock feedback effects on production. For …

A double hurdle statistical analysis of 250 farms in the Tigray region of Ethiopia reveals
different causal factors for soil conservation adoption versus intensity of use. Farmers' …

We use a logit adoption model with data on 941 US corn producers from the 1996
Agricultural Resource Management Study to analyze the influence of land tenure on the …

Conservation behavior is influenced by the attitudes of farmers and by context variables, like
income and farm terrain. Important attitudes were selected by using the theory that …

Soil degradation in the slo** uplands of Asia is a serious problem that threatens the
sustainability of agriculture. Although several soil conservation technologies have been …

Resource degradation in the Third World is largely driven by the demands of farm
households for fuelwood and land for agriculture. Since resources are often controlled …

On the densely populated island of Java in Indonesia, the area of severely eroded upland is
increasing at the rate of 1-2 per-cent per annum and now totals around 2 million hectares …

Soil erosion is a major environmental problem and threat to rural development in Kenya.
Numerous attempts to address the problem have apparently had little success. There are …