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The 30-Year Challenge: Agriculture's Strategic Role in Feeding and Fueling a Growing World
Farm Foundation - 2008
To develop this report, Farm Foundation drew on the insights of leaders from business, government, non-governmental organizations and academia. We began with a small group of individuals whose discussions defined the 30-year challenge in six broad categories: 1. global financial markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005503801
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Solutions from the land: Developing a new vision for United States agriculture, forestry, and conservation
Farm Foundation - 2013
In the twenty-first century, land managers will be increasingly called upon to do more with less. Both at home and across the globe, they will be asked to produce more agricultural products, forestry products, and ecosystem services while reducing their inputs and environmental effects. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249576
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The Water Quality Effects of Corn Ethanol vs Switchgrass Based Biofuels in the Midwest
Secchi, Silvia; Gassman, Philip W.; Jha, Manoj K.; … - Farm Foundation - 2008
While biofuels may yield renewable fuel benefits, there could be downsides in terms of water quality and other … modeling system is then used to assess several scenarios to identify the water quality effects of alternative land uses and the …. Specifically, a scenario that assesses the water quality effects associated with an increase in corn acreage due to higher relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531479
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Using stated preferences to estimate the environmental benefits of using biodiesel fuel in diesel engines
Jeanty, Pierre Wilner; Hitzhusen, Frederick J. - Farm Foundation - 2007
Using biodiesel fuel to reduce emissions from diesel engines is an area of increasing interest. Many environmental benefits associated with biodiesel are not traded in markets and their estimation requires economic valuation methods applied to non-market goods and services. This paper presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005476916
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FARM POLICY DEVELOPMENTS AND POLICY TENSIONS UNDER NAFTA: COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING AND TRACEABILITY
Dominguez, Enrique - Farm Foundation - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220636
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POLICY OPTIONS FOR OPEN BORDERS IN RELATION TO ANIMAL AND PLANT PROTECTION AND FOOD SAFETY
Henson, Spencer J.; Bredahl, Maury E. - Farm Foundation - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005501032
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Future biofuels policy alternatives
Tyner, Wallace E.; Thaeripour, Farzad - Farm Foundation - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005803292
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Ethanol subsidies, Who gets the benefits?
Thaeripour, Farzad; Tyner, Wallace E. - Farm Foundation - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005476915
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Perspectives on 21st Century Agriculture: A Tribute to Walter J. Armbruster
Knutson, Sharron D.; Ernstes, David P. - Farm Foundation
Contents: The enduring legacy of Farm Foundation, by David P. Ernstes; Passing the torch: The generational transition for nonadvocacy public education and outreach, by Otto C. Doering III; Collaboration and institutional innovation, by Mark A. Edelman; The alternatives-consequences approach, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220452
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Farm Foundation: 75 Years as a Catalyst to Agriculture and Rural America
Ernstes, David P.; Hildreth, R.J.; Knutson, Ronald D. - Farm Foundation
Chapter titles: Legge and Lowden; Events Leading to the Founding of Farm Foundation; Creating Farm Foundation; Hiring Henry C. Taylor; The Birth And Growth of Committees; National Public Policy Education Committee; Farm Foundation Programming in the 1950s and 1960s; Farm Foundation Round Table; The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005514098