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This paper evaluates the consequences of considering environmental and economic risk in the analysis of cost-effective nitrogen abatement options in crop production. A farm-level mathematical programming model incorporating nitrogen leaching variability, field time variability, yield...
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of on-farm diversification. Using linked census data for Upper-Austria from 1980, 1985 and 1990 we provide evidence that … farms. A significantly lower degree of diversification (higher degree of specialisation) as well as a stronger reduction in … diversification over time is also reported for businesses operated by older, less educated, part-time farm operators. The analysis of …
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diversifying farm activities. The paper shows that regional identity can stimulate farmers to take up diversification and can also …
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This paper investigates on-farm income diversification determinants, using data from the Italian 2010 census. The … reduction as on-farm diversification strategy determinants. Results stress also that, besides farm characteristics and … structures, spatial location and distances play a prominentrole in explaining the diversification process. Our results seem …
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developing economies. Recent investigations have found the level and type of diversification to be a significant factor in … influence agaricultural diversification on determining higher levels of viability at the farm level. …
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The international diversification of assets by investing in agricultural commodities has manifested increasingly in …
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production systems, particularly through diversification opportunities. In this paper we focus our analysis on the conditions …
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specifically on the diversification strategies of (larger) farms and (smaller) crofts related to the multifunctionality of …/crofts in this remote area have chosen specific diversification or specialisation strategies, and briefly considers their …
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actual New Hungary Rural Development and National Diversification Programs (2007-13). We try to establish a complex diagnosis …, logistical, organizational, HR, R+D and innovation background. The sugar is a strategic product and it is considered to be a … and had disappeared during the last 15 years, and how the diversification takes place in Hungary. …
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income and activities. Results of the research unambiguously show that diversification of income and activities are now … integral part of business activities of numerous farms. No doubt, importance of diversification will increase in future period …
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