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Salazar, Lina; Maffioli, Alessandro; Aramburu, Julián; … - 2016

In this paper, we evaluate the short term impact of a Fruit Fly Eradication Program in the coastal areas of Peru. Exploiting arbitrary variation in the program's intervention borders, as well as precise geographic location data of farmer's households, we use a Geographical Regression...

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Estimando los impactos de un programa de erradicación de la mosca de la fruta en Perú : un enfoque de regresión discontinua geográfica

Salazar, Lina; Maffioli, Alessandro; Aramburu, Julián; … - 2016

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The market for wastewater sludge (biosolids)

Søgaard, Villy - 2016

Despite public approval from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Miljøstyrelsen), farmers have proven reluctant to accept wastewater sludge as a source of fertilizer. They are in fact still being paid for accepting it. Based on interviews with key stakeholders, a review of the...

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Agri-environmental policies in a transition economy : using a choice experiment to value agricultural biodiversity on Hungarian small farms

Birol, Ekin; Gyovai, Ágnes; Smale, Melinda - 2004

Agricultural biodiversity is a crucial environmental resource. Much of the agricultural biodiversity remaining today is found on the semi-subsistence farms of poorer countries and on the small-scale farms and home gardens of more industrialised nations. The traditional Hungarian home gardens,...

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El Niño and Indian droughts : a scoping exercise

Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014

Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...

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Towards sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture : case of rice and sugarcane

Gulati, Ashok; Mohan, Gayathri - 2018

of eastern region. At the same time, set the markets right (reduce market risk) for the less water intensive crops that …

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Modelling Indian wheat and rice sector policies

Kozicka, Marta; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Saini, Shweta; … - 2015

several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … and market price. The signs of the estimated price elasticities of demand are consistent with the theory; however, for … stocks are found to strongly crowd out private stocks but not to the same extent as public stocks are build up. Total exports …

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