Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192146 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 162
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
This paper studies the implications of climatic uncertainty and poverty for resource degradation. In doing so, two partial models are considered. The first model focuses on productive inputs only, while the second model describes the role of soil conservation inputs. Both models are first analysed under farmer risk aversion. Then farmers which operate at a minimum level of subsistence are considered. It is shown that the consequences for the soil conservation decision from both risk aversion and poverty tend to be opposite for the two models. Output-induced soil depletion increases when agrarian producers are poor and risk averse. The incentives for soil conservation improve for the same two reasons when soil conservation inputs are analysed.
Subjects: 
Farm households
soil fertility
risk preferences.
JEL: 
Q12
Q20
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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