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wealthy, developed countries is institutionalized and maintained. Agriculture has been one of the most controversial issues in … implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It discusses the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, which is systematically favoring …, discusses the relationship between trade and food security, and analyzes the impact of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture on food …
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Horticultural firms are dependent on energy to produce, while policy makers focus on reducing the use of energy and … investment in energy-saving technologies. The paper aimed to asses Dutch greenhouse farmers‘ responses to policies that would … affect prices of different energy inputs. The farmer’s behaviour is modelled in two steps: firms are assumed to maximize …
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This paper aims to investigate if the legislation will allow the production of energy from winery by-products and how … generate due to the high level of methane included in the pressings that could be transformed in energy, the short period …
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demand behaviours of the urban households, with respect to the various sources of energy. The work aims to highlight the … place of the firewood like source of energy. The results obtained confirm the important place of the firewood in its various … forms like source of energy in urban areas and thus indicating a threat on the future of the natural resources, in …
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is already being undertaken with respect to the impact of fluctuations in input prices (e.g. fertilizer, feed and energy …
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Nitrogen is an important input to agricultural production but also detrimentally affects the environmental quality of air, soil and water. Identifying the determinants of nitrate pollution and in turn defining sensible performance indicators to design, enforce and monitor regulatory policies is...
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result in the appropriate use of time and capacity of the agricultural machines. In some sectors, such as agriculture or …
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The paper provides an analysis of the impacts of the biofuel policy on the French arable crop sub-sector. The model used is a biofuel supply model composed of an agricultural module and an industrial biofuel processing module. The agricultural supply model is an aggregation of 1094 farm models,...
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Food for all continues to be a key issue, especially in the developing world where every fifth person is chronically undernourished. India, a fast growing developing country has also experienced serious food shortages for example in the mid 1960s. Punjab, a small northern Indian state has...
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This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weather events. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affected individuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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