| Автор | BENIN, SAMUEL |
| Автор | PENDER, JOHN |
| Дата выпуска | 2006 |
| dc.description | Collective action can play a significant role in sustainable management of common grazing lands through restricting access and regulating use. However, it is not clear why there are often violations of grazing restrictions in equilibrium. This paper first presents a theoretical framework of collective action in community management of grazing lands that explicitly models individual violations behaviour. Then data from the highlands of Amhara region of Ethiopia are used to test the model predictions to examine the impact of policy-relevant factors on collective establishment of grazing restrictions and violations of grazing restrictions. Econometric results show that collective action in community grazing land management is likely to be more beneficial and effective in communities with better market access or higher populations. Collective action, on the other hand, is less likely to be successful in communities with greater social, economic, or cultural heterogeneity or more affluent members. Factors related to greater livestock profitability, such as rainfall, or fixed costs of negotiating agreements, such as total land area of the community, have ambiguous effects, as they are associated with establishment of grazing restrictions as well as violating the restrictions. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | Collective action in community management of grazing lands: the case of the highlands of northern EthiopiaSenior authorship is not assigned. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway for funding this research and the collabora-tive support of the International Livestock Research Institute and the Amhara National Regional State Bureau of Agriculture in implementing the project on Policies for Sustainable Land Management in the Highlands of Amhara Region, from which the data used here were collected. All errors are the responsibility of the authors. Kindly send correspondence to Samuel Benin at s.benin@cgiar.org. |
| DOI | 10.1017/S1355770X05002688 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-4395 |
| Print ISSN | 1355-770X |
| Журнал | Environment and Development Economics |
| Том | 11 |
| Первая страница | 127 |
| Последняя страница | 149 |
| Аффилиация | BENIN SAMUEL; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
| Аффилиация | PENDER JOHN; IFPRI |
| Выпуск | 1 |
