agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global …

concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as …

Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk-averse farmers by reducing the variance of crop yield, and to … analyze the choice of agro-biodiversity by risk-averse farmers who have access to financial insurance, and study the … implications for agri-environmental policy design when on-farm agro-biodiversity generates a positive risk externality. While …

We consider a world economy, in which the global public good "biodiversity" is positively correlated with that share of …-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in "rich" developed countries (North), but very low in "poor" developing … welfare when the North financially supports biodiversity conservation in the South - as stipulated in the Convention on …

semi-natural pastureland. However, the program may have negative impacts on landscape aesthetics and biodiversity. We … from carbon sequestration and biodiversity seem more constant across space. The net present value of all land use … substantial hypothetical bias in benefit estimates and for cost increases. Results indicate that landscape and biodiversity values …

Biodiversity is influenced by the process of economic development, between the two there is a causal relationship … - when development does not respect the environment, biodiversity experiences negative transformations. The EU Biodiversity … to protect biodiversity. This paper proposes an analysis of the significant aspects of biodiversity in Romania, based on …

We consider a world economy, in which the global public good ’biodiversity’ is positively correlated with that share of …-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in ’rich’ developed countries (North), but very low in ’poor’ developing … welfare when the North financially supports biodiversity conservation in the South – as stipulated in the Convention on …

agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global …

palm oil within the GHG context. We discuss the impact of palm oil on biodiversity and analyse how palm oil can contribute … is much less significant than postulated by some recent campaigns. Furthermore, biodiversity in oil palm plantations is …

This paper explores possible interdependence of biodiversity and several socioeconomic and political factors at the … county level. It is aimed at the empirical identification of direct and indirect effects between biodiversity (loss) and … their theoretical major impact factors. To date, research shows that in addition to geography, agriculture is one major …