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Cost Analysis for Water Distribution in Agriculture
Dono, Gabriele; Giraldo, Luca - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
set at a higher level than efficiency. As a consequence, farmers may decide to reduce their use of the public irrigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326439
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Enhancing Irrigation Efficiency but Increasing Water Use: The Jevons' Paradox
Gomez, Carlos Mario; Gutierrez, Carlos - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
In this paper we analyze the conditions under which increasing technical efficiency of water use in the agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326365
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Technical Change Performance and Water Use Efficiency in the Irrigated Areas: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Chemak, Fraj - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
technical efficiency, the water use efficiency and the dynamic of the productivity of the irrigated areas in the Sidi Bouzid … change. Empirical findings showed that the technical efficiency of the farms has increased by 17% during this period leading … to an improvement of the water use efficiency up to 22%. Both, the technical efficiency change as well as the technical …
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Agricultural Costs of Carbon Dioxide Abatement via Land-use Adaptation on organic soils
Schaller, Lena; Kantelhardt, Jochen; Droesler, Matthias; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
Increasing carbon dioxide emissions and related climate effects require mitigation strategies, thereby also emissions caused by agriculture are brought into the focus of political debate. In particular organic soil cultivation, inducing significant CO2 emissions is being discussed more and more....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650518
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Identifying obstacles to the design and implementation of payment schemes for ecosystem services provided through farm trees
Schleyer, Christian; Plieninger, Tobias - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
An important determinant of ecosystem services provision from European farmland is the amount and spatial arrangement of trees, shrubs, and woodlands that are integrated into the respective land use systems. Farm trees are considered ‘keystone structures’ of agroecosystems because of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322806
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ON ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND RISK EXPOSURE IN THE NILE BASIN OF ETHIOPIA
Di Falco, Salvatore; Veronesi, Marcella - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
This study investigates the impact of climate change adaptation on farm households’ downside risk exposure (e.g., risk of crop failure) in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. The analysis relies on a moment-based specification of the stochastic production function. We estimate a simultaneous equations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322808
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Testing for Consistency in Tourists' Willingness to Pay for New Nature Reserves in the Gulf of Morbihan (France)
Voltaire, Louinord; Nassiri, Abdelhak; Bailly, Denis; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
In this paper, we develop an empirical test of consistency in contingent willingness to pay (WTP) responses, which is based on the following a priori expectation. In economics, when an individual considers paying for public goods, his decision to pay, and his WTP are based on utility-maximising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322809
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Opportunity Costs as a Determinant of Participation in Payments for Ecosystem Service Schemes
Wunscher, Tobias; Engel, Stefanie; Wunder, Sven - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
Landholders are generally assumed to be willing to participate in payments for ecosystem service (PES) schemes if the offered payment exceeds the opportunity cost of participation. The calculation of opportunity costs is often based on historic financial data such as net returns of the formerly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322812
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International Variability in Biofuel Trade: An Assessment of U.S. Policies
Yano, Yuki; Blandford, David; Surry, Yves R. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
Although the United States has typically been in a position to import ethanol, corn-based ethanol exports are surging as the domestic market becomes saturated and world prices rise due to high prices for sugar, the competing global feedstock. The U.S. is now the world’s leading ethanol...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322814
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Demand for Irrigation Water for Pistachio Production from Depleting Groundwater Resources: Spatial Econometric Approach
Jaghdani, Tinoush Jamali; Brummer, Bernhard - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
Depletion of groundwater resources is an international problem, and groundwater is probably the world’s most extracted raw material. The agriculture sector is one of the biggest users of groundwater resources for irrigation activities, and it plays an important role in the depletion of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322818