The bioeconomics of controlling an African rodent pest species.
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Date
2006
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press.
Abstract
The paper treats the economy of controlling an African pest rodent, the
multimammate rat, causingmajor damage in maize production. An ecological population
model is presented and used as a basis for the economic analyses carried out at the
village level using data from Tanzania. This model incorporates both density-dependent
and density-independent (stochastic) factors. Rodents are controlled by applying poison,
and the costs are made up of the cost of poison plus the damage to maize production.
We analyse how the present-value costs of maize production are affected by various
Description
Environment and Development Economics Volume 11, Issue 4 August 2006 , pp. 453-475
Keywords
Bioeconomics., African., Rodents., Pest., Species.