Enabling environment

7 important questions on Enabling environment

Socio-economic and political factors (keypoint)

For rural development or SLM , it is not that we need only technical issues requiring a push but pull factors do have an influence on it as well

There is a difference between indirect and direct incentives, explain

direct incentives--> regular (cash/payment or kind in tools)--> emergency (cash or food)
Indirect-->increased tenure of land, and improved marketing channeling, community, infrastructure

What are the benefits of direct incentives?

-it can help to overcome bottlenecks
-it can be a kick start
-it can help to compensate the initial production loss
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What are the disadvantages of direct incentives?

-Is it really sustainable
-create tension between projects
-can become addictive
-create feeling of conservation is not our problem

Explain the relation between population and natural resources

-the conventional view, when there is more population there would be an increase of land degradation, Erhlich theory (example Ethiopia)
-The opposite of the conventional few, when the population decrease the land degradation decrease as well (canary islands, no human power to maintain the land)
- Increase in population, is an decrease in land degradation (Kenya, first 1 but then there came new tools and improvements, the people had for themselves a small piece of land, and so they looked better at their land. Because the knowledge is shared this project can sustain for a very long time)

Explain the relation between land ownership and land tenure

-SLM and tenure interactions can be very complex
-Private ownership usually favours good management
-if you feel safe and secure you are more likely to invest (to stake a claim)

Marketing and free trade

-subsidies and tariffs
-liberalization, losers and winners
-removing tariffs would benefit the poorer countries
-example cotton

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