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Wang, Zhongmin; Krupnick, Alan - 2013

This is the first academic paper that reviews the economic, policy, and technology history of shale gas development in the United States. The primary objective of the paper is to answer the question of what led to the shale gas boom in the United States to help inform stakeholders in those...

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Technology Prizes for Climate Change Mitigation

Newell, Richard; Wilson, Nathan - 2005

We analyze whether technology inducement prizes could be a useful complement to standard research grants and contracts in developing climate change mitigation technologies. We find that there are important conceptual advantages to using inducement prizes in certain circumstances. These...

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A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy

Stavins, Robert; Jaffe, Adam; Newell, Richard - 2004

Market failures associated with environmental pollution interact with market failures associated with the innovation … and information problems can further weaken innovation incentives. While environmental technology policy is fraught with …

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Technologies for Meeting Future Global Demands for Food

Crosson, Pierre; Anderson, Jock - 2002

Food can be produced under a number of technological conditions. Some observers hold that modern crop production technologies, typified by those embodied in the Green Revolution, are so intensive in the use of external inputs that they damage the environment and so are not sustainable. Those...

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Advancing Agricultural Productivity in Africa: An Executive Interview with Eric Raby, Vice President of Global Marketing and Commercial Development, AGCO

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Trends and Opportunities in Agriculture An Executive Interview with Lowell Catlett

Jose, H. Douglas - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 11 (2008) 4

Agriculture will change more in the next decade than it did in the last century. Lowell Catlett is a futurist sharing his knowledge and insight on the new trends and technologies shaping the future of agriculture and how those working in this sector can take advantage of new opportunities.

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The linkages between agriculture and malaria: Issues for policy, research, and capacity strengthening

Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo; Asante, Felix A.; Tarekegn, Jifar; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"Malaria afflicts many people in the developing world, and due to its direct and indirect costs it has widespread impacts on growth and development. The global impact of malaria on human health, productivity, and general well-being is profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been...

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Rural innovation systems and networks: Findings from a study of Ethiopian smallholders

Spielman, David J.; Davis, Kristin E.; Negash, Martha; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

little is known about how these opportunities can be effectively leveraged to promote pro-poor processes of rural innovation … smallholders' innovation processes. Case studies of smallholder innovation networks in 10 communities suggest that public sector … that create more space for market and civil society actors to participate in smallholder innovation networks." from Author …

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