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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones

Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choice experiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics. Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...

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Labor Market Participation of Chinese Agricultural Households

Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; Wang, Xiaobing - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

This work is devoted to the analysis of the different labor market participation regimes of Chinese farm households …

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Bridging the Gap between Farmers and Researchers through Collaborative Experimentation. Cost and Labour Reduction in Soybean Production in South-Nyanza, Kenya

Vandeplas, I.; Vanlauwe, Bernard; Merckx, Roel; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

The Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of the International Centre of Tropical Agriculture (TSBF-CIAT) introduced dual purpose soybean varieties in south-west Kenya both to improve soil fertility by nitrogen fixation and to provide a source of better food and income. Since the start...

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Marginal Farmers and Agri-Environmental Schemes: Evaluating Policy Design Adequacy for the Environmental Fallow Measure

Hurle, Jesus Barreiro; Goded, Maria Espinosa - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

This paper examines the factors affecting farmer's participation in an agri-environmental scheme (AES) in marginal …'s participation, without disregarding the role of social capital. The farm and farmer characteristics (intrinsic factors) as well as …, understood as participation rate. Due to the fact that the effects of applying this measure do not have significant effect on the …

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