Chavas, Jean-Paul and Salvatore, Di Falco (2012) On the productive value of crop biodiversity: evidence from the highlands of Ethiopia. Land Economics, 88 (1). pp. 58-74. ISSN 0023-7639
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This paper investigates the productive value of crop biodiversity, with an application to a farming system in the Tigray region in the highlands of Ethiopia. We examine a general measure of the productive value of crop biodiversity and its components. Using Ethiopian farm-level data, agroecosystem productivity is investigated empirically. The analysis gives estimates of the value of diversity and its components. The value of crop biodiversity is estimated to be positive. The complementarity component is found to be large and statistically significant: it is the main source of crop biodiversity value in this agroecosystem of Ethiopia. However, the convexity component is negative, indicating that nonconvexity contributes to reducing the value of crop biodiversity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://uwpress.wisc.edu/journals/journals/le.html |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) |
| JEL classification: | D - Microeconomics > D6 - Welfare Economics > D61 - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q18 - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2012 17:10 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 23:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/41894 |
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