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Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk averse farmers. We employ a conceptual ecological …-economic model to analyze the choice of agrobiodiversity by risk averse farmers who have access to financial insurance. We study the …-biodiversity, through ecosystem processes at higher hierarchical levels, generates a positive externality on other farmers. We show that for …
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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 … increasing environmental risk leads private farmers to increase their level of on-farm agro-biodiversity, the level of agro …
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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 … increasing environmental risk leads private farmers to increase their level of on-farm agro-biodiversity, the level of agro …
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Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk averse farmers. We employ a conceptual ecological …-economic model to analyze the choice of agrobiodiversity by risk averse farmers who have access to financial insurance. We study the …-biodiversity, through ecosystem processes at higher hierarchical levels, generates a positive externality on other farmers. We show that for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729417
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 … increasing environmental risk leads private farmers to increase their level of on-farm agro-biodiversity, the level of agro …
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We develop and formalize a utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability which is inspired by Singer‟s (1972) principle and the Brundtland Commission‟s notion of sustainability (WCED 1987). We characterize this notion of responsibility through necessary and sufficient conditions,...
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operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands … of Namibia, a system that is subject to extensive degradation. We characterize farmers’ personal norms, study their … sustainability that are heterogeneous across farmers but vary little with socio-demographic or environmental characteristics. We find …
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We study risk preferences and their determinants for commercial cattle farmers in Namibia who are subject to high … risk-averse farmers operate farms with higher precipitation risk. Moreover, the longer farmers experience a given …We study risk preferences and their determinants for commercial cattle farmers in Namibia who are subject to high and …
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We study risk preferences and their determinants for commercial cattle farmers in Namibia who are subject to high … risk-averse farmers operate farms with higher precipitation risk. Moreover, the longer farmers experience a given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179170