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Coasian payments for agricultural external benefits - an empirical cross-section analysis

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J - 2005

This paper deals with a cross section analysis of local compensation payments to farmers for their provision of … tourist communities start compensating their farmers for landscape-enhancing activities. Local subsidy schemes supplement …

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Measuring economic growth from outer space

Henderson, Vernon; Storeygard, Adam; Weil, David N. - 2009

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. Our statistical framework uses light growth to supplement existing income growth measures. The framework is applied to countries with...

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Assessing the rise of organic farming in the European Union: Environmental and socioeconomic consequences

Konstantinidis, Charalampos - 2012

farms to allow family farmers to remain in the countryside as high-value producers. I assert that this this development … experience of organic farmers in the EU as a lesson for schemes paying for environmental services, I suggest that the success of … organic farming should be evaluated by the numbers of participating farmers, rather than by area covered, as has been the …

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Respuesta a precios del área sembrada de soja en la Argentina

Lanteri, Luis - 2009

This paper analyzes the response of the soybean sown area of Argentina to changes in price incentives and other variables which are relevant for agricultural production. To this effect, VEC models are estimated for some of the main producing provinces and for the country’s total in the period...

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Simulated vs. Empirical Weather Responsiveness of Crop Yields: U.S. Evidence and Implications for the Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change

Mistry, Malcolm N.; Wing, Ian Sue; De Cian, Enrica - 2017

Global gridded crop models (GGCMs) are the workhorse of assessments of the agricultural impacts of climate change. Yet the changes in crop yields projected by different models in response to the same meteorological forcing can differ substantially. Through an inter-method comparison, we provide...

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Do Temperature Thresholds Threaten American Farmland?

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2017

Estimated Ricardian models have been criticized because they rely on mean temperatures and do not explicitly include extreme temperatures. This paper uses a cross sectional approach to compare a standard quadratic Ricardian model of mean temperature with a fully flexible daily temperature bin...

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Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: an agent-based analysis

Bazzana, Davide; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Zhang, Ying - 2021

capital, strong social networks and access to integrated food markets. The climate scenario simulations indicate that farmers …. In addition, farmers with poor connections to food markets benefit less from CSA due to stronger price oscillations …

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An empirical investigation of real farm incomes across Indian states between 1987-88 and 2011-12

Basu, Deepankar; Misra, Kartik - 2022

Using unit-level data from various rounds of the Employment and Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey Organisation, we present the first consistent time series of average real farm income per cultivator for 18 major Indian states for 1987-88, 1993-94, 1999-00, 2004-05, 2007-08,...

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Public food procurement from smallholder farmers: Literature review and best practices

Miranda, Ana - 2018

farmers, research into these novel strategies is still limited. This paper will address some of the research gaps by …

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Targeting farmers in institutional procurement programmes: Case study of the PAA Africa Programme in Senegal

de Miranda, Rosana Pereira; Thiam, Abdoulaye; Klug, Israel - 2017

Like other Sahel countries, Senegal experienced a succession of food and nutrition crises in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012. In 2012, severe food insecurity affected around 739,000 people, corresponding to 6.2 per cent of the Senegalese population. Nutrition surveys conducted in 2012 showed overall...

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