Contents Volume IIIA: Preface. Analytical Tools. Introduction (J. Behrman, T.N. Srinivasan). Data and econometric tools for development analysis (A. Deaton). Human resources: Empirical modeling of household and family decisions (J. Strauss, D. Thomas). Applied general equilibrium models for policy analysis (J.W. Gunning, M. Keyzer). Resources, Technology, and Institutions. Introduction (J. Behrman, T.N. Srinivasan). Savings, credit and insurance (T. Besley). Technological change and technology strategy (R.E. Evenson, L.E. Westphal). Institutions and economic development (J.Y. Lin, J.B. Nugent). Poverty, institutions, and the environmental-resource base (P. Dasgupta, K.-G. Maler) Contents Volume IIIB: Policy Reform, Stabilization, Structural Adjustment and Growth. Introduction (J. Behrman, T.N. Srinivasan). Policy lessons from development experience since the second world war (A. Krueger). Poverty and policy (M. Lipton, M. Ravallion). Power, distortions, revolt and reform in agricultural land relations (H. Binswanger et al.). Human and physical infrastructure: investment and pricing policies in developing countries (E. Jiminez). Structural adjustment, stabilization and policy reform: domestic and international finance (V. Corbo, S. Fischer). Trade and industrial policy reform (D. Rodrik). The contributions of endogenous growth theory to the analysis of development problems: an assessment (P. Bardhan).

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Handbook of development economics

Aquaculture: Relevance, distribution, impacts and spatial assessments – A review

The number of dengue cases has been increasing on a global level in recent years, and particularly so in Malaysia, yet little is known about the effects of weather for identifying the short-term risk of dengue for the population. The aim of this paper is to estimate the weather effects on dengue disease accounting for non-linear temporal effects in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, Malaysia, from 2008 to 2010. We selected the weather parameters with a Poisson generalized additive model, and then assessed the effects of minimum temperature, bi-weekly accumulated rainfall and wind speed on dengue cases using a distributed non-linear lag model while adjusting for trend, day-of-week and week of the year. We found that the relative risk of dengue cases is positively associated with increased minimum temperature at a cumulative percentage change of 11.92% (95% CI: 4.41-32.19), from 25.4 °C to 26.5 °C, with the highest effect delayed by 51 days. Increasing bi-weekly accumulated rainfall had a positively strong effect on dengue cases at a cumulative percentage change of 21.45% (95% CI: 8.96, 51.37), from 215 mm to 302 mm, with the highest effect delayed by 26-28 days. The wind speed is negatively associated with dengue cases. The estimated lagged effects can be adapted in the dengue early warning system to assist in vector control and prevention plan.

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Assessing Weather Effects on Dengue Disease in Malaysia

Spatiotemporal variation analysis of driving forces of urban land spatial expansion using logistic regression: A case study of port towns in Taicang City, China

To meet growing population demands for food and other agricultural commodities, agricultural land-use intensification and extensification seems to be increasing in the Abbay (Upper Blue Nile) basin in Ethiopia. However, the amount, location and degree of suitability of the basin for agriculture seem not well studied and/or documented. From global data sources, literature review and field investigation, a number of agricultural land suitability evaluation criteria were identified. These criteria were pre-processed as raster layers on a GIS platform and weights of criteria raster layers in determining suitability were computed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). A weighted overlay analysis method was used to compute categories of highly suitable, moderately suitable, marginally suitable and unsuitable lands for agriculture in the basin. It was found out that 53.8 % of the basin’s land coverage was highly suitable for agriculture and 23.2 % was moderately suitable. The marginally suitable and the unsuitable lands were at 11 and 12 % respectively. From the analysis, regions of the basin with high suitability as well as those with higher susceptibility for land degradation and soil erosion were identified.

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Land suitability analysis for agriculture in the Abbay basin using remote sensing, GIS and AHP techniques

Assessment of drivers of coastal land use change in Malaysia

OLANIYI, A. O., A. J. AJIBOYE, A. M. ABduLLAh, M. F. RAMLI and A. M. SOOd, 2015. Agricultural land use suitability assessment in Malaysia. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 21: 560–572 Land suitability assessment (LSA) is a valuable tool for land use planning in major countries of the world as well as in Malaysia. however, previous LSA studies have been conducted with the use of biophysical and ecological datasets to the neglect of equally important socio–economic variables. Therefore, this research is conducted at the sub national level to esti mate suitable agricultural land for major economic crops in Malaysia by application of socio-economic variables in conjunc tion with widely employed biophysical and ecological variables. The objective of this study is to provide an up–to date, GIS based agricultural land suitability assessment (ALSA) for determining suitable agricultural land for major economic crops in Malaysia. Biophysical, ecological and socio-economic factors assumed to influence agricultural land use were assembled and the weights of their respective contributions to land suitability for agricultural uses were assessed using analytic hierarchical process. The result of this study found Kuala Langat and Sabak Bernam districts of Selangor as the most suitable areas for cultivating paddy, oil palm and coconut whereas the Klang and Petaling are more suitable for growing rubber. Since Kuala Langat and Sabak Bernam are generally suitable for growing wider variety of crops, the study foresaw potential environmental degradation of these locations from agricultural intensification. While this study could also be useful in assessing the poten tial agricultural yields and potential environmental degradation in the study area, it could also helps to estimate the potential conversion of agricultural land to non–agricultural uses.

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Agricultural land use suitability assessment in malaysia

OLANIYI, A. O., A. M. AbduLLAh, M. F. RAMLI and A. M. SOOd, 2013. Agricultural land use in Malaysia: an historical overview and implications for food security. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 19: 60-69 A study is conducted to describe the historical overview of agricultural land use in Malaysia with the aim of identifying the challenges of agricultural land use in a dynamic economic system. Economic policies were explained with major policies instruments. The effects of these policies on patterns of agricultural land use in 1960 – 2005 were assessed. Findings identified three broad economic eras in Malaysia: Agricultural (1960 1974); Industrial (1975 1999) and Urbanization eras (2000 date). Macroeconomic policies that favored industrialization and urbanization had negative effects on agricultural land use by competing with agricultural sectors for production inputs such as labor and capital because the better conditions of service and higher returns per capital in the industrial sector led to the withdrawal of inputs from the agricultural sectors. Subsequent change in tastes due to increased per capita income resulted to a change in agricultural land use in favor of highly rewarding and better-demanded crops (fruits and vegetables) thus causing agricultural land use dynamics. Sustainable agricultural land use in Malaysia, given scarce resource inputs (labor and capital) trade liberalization and globalization will depend on the ability of the country to deepen her application of science and technology for automated agricultural practices, diseases and pests control and high yielding varieties and suitable land administration policies for Malaysia to compete favorably with other major

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Agricultural land use in Malaysia: an historical overview and implications for food security.

A B ST R A C T A study is conducted to investigate the effects of socio economic factors on agricultural land use in Malaysia. Relevant socio – economic variables for the study were aggregated from the databases of various international and national agencies such as FAO, Index Mundi and Malaysian Departments of Agriculture and Statistics. These data were subjected to statistical analysis using stepwise regression method in SPSS version 18. Findings indicated that, relevant socio – economic factors in agricultural land use in Malaysia are available workforce in the population and their working conditions in the agricultural and non – agricultural sectors. This study has revealed that labour supply and their conditions of service are major factors in agricultural land use in Malaysia. This study further underscores the need for greater application labour saving technology in agricultural practices given the competition between agricultural and non – agricultural uses of available workforce in the population.

Effects of socio - economic factors on agricultural land use in Malaysia

Economic transformation and growth had resulted into increased population and change in taste of the people of Selangor, Malaysia. Evidence shows that the people have graduated from the consumption of highly starchy food to the consumption of more proteinous food, fruits and vegetables. This changing taste will hitherto produce effects on the sizes of agricultural land use for production of different agricultural crops. A case of drivers of agricultural land use for vegetables production (ALUVP) is assessed in this study. ALUVP was compared with the potential driving variables at three different scales using Spatial Analyst 3.2 in an arcGIS 9.2 environments. Findings indicated that vegetables are found cultivated in mixed cropping systems with coconut, orchard, paddy, rubber, idle grass, whereas there were observed competition between vegetables production and oil palm, swamp/forest for land use. Factors such as maximum temperature, average temperature, slope, population density and soil series have inverse relations with ALUVP while distance to lake, major river, minor roads, road density, number of raining days, percentage urban residents have direct relationships with it (ALUVP). Drivers of ALUVP differ at different scales of analysis with the effects of accessibility becoming more pronounced at lower scales of analysis than at higher scale. With reference to competition for land use within and between agricultural sector and other more profitable non - agricultural sectors, it is unlikely that the government policy initiative of achieving self sufficiency in vegetables production by the year 2010 will be achieved.

	 

	Key words: Agricultural land use for vegetables production (ALUVP), changing taste, economic transformation and growth, mixed cropping and policy initiatives.

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Akeem Olawale Olaniyi

Papers

Assessment of drivers of coastal land use change in Malaysia

Agricultural land use suitability assessment in malaysia

Agricultural land use in Malaysia: an historical overview and implications for food security.

Effects of socio - economic factors on agricultural land use in Malaysia

Factors affecting agricultural land use for vegetables production - a case study of the state of Selangor, Malaysia.