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Sustainable mountain agriculture through integrated and science-based watershed management: A case study
Agriculture in mountain areas is essential for the worldâs
food security. Mountains account for one quarter of the
worldâs land surface and are home to 12 percent of its
population. More vitally, 50 percent of the worldâs
population depend on the water and ecosystem
services that mountains provide. Mountain areas are
characterized by topography of variable altitudes and
variable climatic conditions and so are major reservoirs
of global biodiversity.
Mountain ecosystems are largely fragile and rainfed,
and are a high-risk environment throughout the year.
Mountain systems are extremely vulnerable to climate
variability and the implications of climate change.
People who live in mountain regions are often amongst
the poorest and most food insecure people in the
world due to the harsh conditions of the terrain, poor
infrastructure development, lack of services and general
isolation. However, mountain regions are increasingly
popular tourist destinations worldwide attracting over
50 million visitors annually which can provide the
opportunity to popularise FSF and also create additional
income for the locals.
Achieving Zero Hunger for a world population that is
expected to pass the 9 billion mark by 2050 is a major
challenge. Moreover, ensuring that nutrition is balanced
is also important, especially when both malnutrition and
obesity are growing concerns globally as a result of poor
or unhealthy diets..
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Attribute Specific Impacts of Stated Non-Attendance in Choice Experiments
In this paper, we generalise existing approaches to the treatment of stated attribute nonâattendance data in discrete choice experiments by allowing attribute specific impacts. We implement this approach by employing an extended hierarchical Bayes logit model specification. To illustrate this approach, we consider data collected to examine Indian consumersâ preferences for traditional aromatic rice varieties. Our results regarding stated attribute nonâattendance reveal that, our new approach shrinks marginal utilities of nonâattenders substantially compared to stated attenders, with significant differences in the shrinkage between some of the attributes. In addition, our results reveal the way in which nonâattendance of attributes interact with each other and the impact that this has on the distribution of willingness to pay estimates