Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali
| dc.creator | Dalton, Timothy J. | |
| dc.creator | Masters, William A. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:51:10Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:11:14Z | |
| dc.description | This study integrates biophysical simulation data with a farm household model of intertemporal optimization, to investigate changing crop-livestock management practices in the Sudano-Guinean zone of Mali. Over a 15-yr time horizon we find that free grazing on the commons remains more attractive to the representative household than adopting more labor- and capitalintensive confinement systems, but that a relatively low level of pasture tax (around US$3 per livestock unit per year) would be sufficient to induce intensification. Because confinement raises output, the net cost of the tax to the household is only about US$1 per unit per year. Imposing pasture taxes to induce intensification could raise community welfare, if the value of commons resources liberated by reduced grazing pressure exceeds that level. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.174520 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/174520/files/agec1998v019i001-002a005.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/174520 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/596461 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/174520 | |
| dc.title | Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali | |
| dc.type | Text |