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Land use change and agricultural intensification: Key research questions and innovative approaches
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Integrating institution into bio-economic modeling for development: A background paper for the IFPRI Biosight project on sustainable agricultural intensification
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Adding gender dimensions to bio-economic modelling: Insights from the literature
Current international debates increasingly highlight the need to move countries towards more sustainable paths of development.
Quantitative methods for policy analysis course notes
Historically economists have relied on econometric (or statistical) methods to estimate parameters from observed data.
Gender dimensions of agricultural innovation awareness and adoption
The 3-year startup phase of the BioSight project envisions the development of “models, tools, and problem-focused analytics” to contribute to the project’s larger goal of establishing stronger micro-level and spatially explicit foundations to adva
Modular ABM development in NRM for improved dissemination and training
Agent-based models (ABM) have become an important tool for natural resource management in recent decades, and for the study of agricultural change in particular (e.g., Becu, Perez, Walker, Barreteau, & Page, 2003; Bell, 2011; Bert et al., 2010