Technology Adoption by Small
Rural Households
Project Dates: ongoing
Project Collaborators: World Health Organization and others
A series of projects have examined the
incentives for households to adopt improved technologies for both
agriculture and home fuel use. The importance of external markets
for home products and health to this adoption has also been examined.
An important aspect of adoption behavior we study is the sequential
nature of adoption, where households adopt technologies in related
pieces,gathering information prior to adoption of a full technology
package. The results will be useful in the future targeting of means
to reduce fuel use from primary and public forests. Adoption has been
studied in Pakistan, Nepal, and Ethiopia.
Fuelwood Collection Patterns
in Orissa India and Tigray Ethiopia - welfare impacts
Project Dates: 2001-2002
Project Collaborators: University of Goteborg, Sweden
The purpose of this project is to consider
the welfare impacts of location in fuel collection, factoring in the
amount of time households spend traveling to various fuel collection
sites. The choice of site will be modeled, as well as the time spent
foraging and traveling. A welfare analysis will be performed to assess
the benefits of policies aimed at improving access to fuelwood.
Community Forestry and Enforcement
Efficiency in the Midhill region of Nepal
Project Dates: 2001-2003
Project Collaborators: Nepal Ministery of Forests, USAID
Data is currently being collected in
several community forest sites within the hill and Terai region of
Nepal, with the purpose of determining the importance of enforcement
strategies to the success of community forest projects and local control
of resources. The efficiency of enforcement schemes will be compared
using household level data for villages near 10 community forest projects.
The efficiency of household decisions involving fuel use will be compared
and tested across the projects, and the importance of enforcement
schemes and enforcement effort, as well as the mechanism for how enforcement
is implemented, will be specifically studied.
