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DOI	10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.10.009
	Determinants of farm size and stocking rate in Namibian commercial cattle farming
	Engler, John-Oliver; von Wehrden, Henrik; Baumgaertner, Stefan
通讯作者	Engler, JO (corresponding author), Leuphana Univ Luneburg, Quantitat Methods Sustainabil Sci Grp, Univ Allee 1, D-21335 Luneburg, Germany.
来源期刊	LAND USE POLICY
ISSN	0264-8377
EISSN	1873-5754
出版年	2019
卷号	81 页码:232-246
英文摘要	Utilizing a data set of 399 Namibian commercial cattle farmers, we provide a detailed empirical analysis of farm management under highly variable rainfall. Particularly, we provide an econometric analysis of what personal characteristics of the farmer, environmental characteristics, and characteristics of the farm explain farm size and choice of stocking rate, i.e. the heads of livestock per hectare. There is strong support for the hypothesis that environmental variables such as inter-annual rainfall variability play an important role in explaining stocking rate, but not in explaining farm size in the sense of rangeland area or cattle numbers. Other major explaining factors for the stocking rate are the farmer's gender and the number of cattle on farm above a certain threshold given by a fit of the Pareto distribution to the data. Traditional farm size variables like cattle number and rangeland area are not well explained by any of the candidate models constructed, which supports the view that the stocking rate is the central farm management parameter.
英文关键词	Risk preferences Environmental risk Semi-arid rangelands Cattle farming Stocking rate Farm size Pareto distribution Range management
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000457820000024
WOS关键词	RAINFALL VARIABILITY ; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY ; RANGE MANAGEMENT ; NONEQUILIBRIUM ; MODEL ; RISK ; LAW ; PARETO ; PERSPECTIVES ; SIMULATION
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/369463
作者单位	[Engler, John-Oliver; von Wehrden, Henrik; Baumgaertner, Stefan] Leuphana Univ Luneburg, Fac Sustainabil, Luneburg, Germany; [Baumgaertner, Stefan] Univ Freiburg, Dept Environm & Nat Resources, Freiburg, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Engler, John-Oliver,von Wehrden, Henrik,Baumgaertner, Stefan. Determinants of farm size and stocking rate in Namibian commercial cattle farming[J],2019,81:232-246.
APA	Engler, John-Oliver,von Wehrden, Henrik,&Baumgaertner, Stefan.(2019).Determinants of farm size and stocking rate in Namibian commercial cattle farming.LAND USE POLICY,81,232-246.
MLA	Engler, John-Oliver,et al."Determinants of farm size and stocking rate in Namibian commercial cattle farming".LAND USE POLICY 81(2019):232-246.