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Environmental, social, and economic attributes are important for the sustainability of a farming system. Resilience is also important, yet has seldom been directly considered in evaluations of economic sustainability. In economic terms, resilience has to do with the capacity of the farm business...
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This paper examines the Federal quarantine established by USDA in 1996 to prevent the spread of Karnal bunt, a minor disease of wheat. During the early stages of its regulatory strategy, USDA made extensive use of probabilistic risk assessments to determine the efficacy of various quarantine...
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evaluate technical change efficiency and technological efficiency change across the country’s 12 provinces. A decomposition of … efficiency change over the reference period. The study further examined the effect of land quality, agriculture labor, and …
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A land retirement policy whereby land is taken out of agriculture and converted to natural vegetation or forestry has the potential to reduce environmental damage related to dryland salinity in Western Australia. This paper uses some recent results in the theory of directional distance functions...
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and operated tube well based small scale projects in the state have relatively better utilization efficiency. However …. Emergence of the institution of ground water markets, however, is expected to improve utilisation efficiency of irrigation as it … with enhancing utilization efficiency and better management of the common pool resource of ground water, a study of ground …
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efficiency over the popular dichotomous choice approach to contingent valuation. This paper reports a split sample test of the … impacts on benefit estimates and efficiency arising from differences in the numbers of divisions on payment cards. Prior … expectations were for increased cell numbers to improve efficiency, but that efficiency gains would eventually be offset because of …
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models, or to reduce required sample sizes. C-efficiency recognises the salience of willingness to pay estimates rather than … based on initial responses in order to maximise C-efficiency. The revised design delivered significant improvements. …
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Bangladesh’s industrial trawl fishery. Results show that the efficiency of industrial trawl fishery comes from multiple owner …
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Using stochastic frontier analysis, efficiency of production of wheat in Western Australia was studied. The production … demonstrated the stochastic nature of efficiency and that for some firms improving efficiency may not be possible or feasible due … reasons for the inefficiency are not necessarily production related, hence, programs targeted to improve efficiency may not be …
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