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models so they can be used in simulations. We estimate dynamic greenhouse gas emission functions for five land uses: dairy …
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As a consequence of global changes to trade policy, there are likely to be significant impacts on international … agricultural trade. Clearly producers in the European Union (EU) will experience considerable changes to the structure of their … analysis of the impact of both World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform in the agricultural …
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, the CPRS is liable to more profoundly affect farming systems, especially if agriculture is included in the scheme. The … impacts of the CPRS on agriculture are mostly conditional on: the amount of free permits allocated to agriculture, the value … of trees as carbon sinks, the extent of pass-through of CPRS-related costs onto agriculture and emission permit prices …
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New Zealand is atypical among the Annex I parties within the Kyoto Protocol with agriculture forming a large part of … and data used to estimate flows of greenhouse gases within agriculture and planted forests in New Zealand’s National …
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The average value of a particular class of agricultural exports varies widely across different destinations. In the event of a supply shock, such as the implementation of the Emissions Trading Scheme, can farmers offset higher costs by raising their average prices by contracting exports to lower...
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Selection logging in the tropics is increasingly moving to systems that reduce the impact of harvesting operations on forests and soils. While much of the focus has been on modifying the tractor logging system using RIL principles, alternative harvesting systems have also been introduced. One of...
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information needed in the work of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) Policy. The paper presents the first results of a …
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Canterbury freshwater management is the focus of important decisions with significant challenges. Applying choice modelling, this study explores how Canterbury residents value freshwater attributes related to environmental, economic, social and cultural elements of wellbeing. In particular, this...
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Three axioms underpin consumer choice in neoclassical theory: weak order, independence, and continuity. Two of these axioms may not hold, however, for consumers’ choices regarding genetically modified (GM) food. Consumers may evaluate product attributes differently depending on whether the...
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