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This paper examines the determinants and implied economic impacts of climate change adaptation strategies in the context of traditional pastoralism. It is based on a household level survey in southern Ethiopian rangelands. Pastoralists' perception of climate change in the region is found to be...
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large one on agriculture because animal and crop growth are heavily influenced by weather conditions during their life …
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the government frame an agriculture credit policy addressing the issues of smallholder farmers, particularly in areas that …
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Entrepreneurship is a tool for facilitating rural economic development, which is becoming increasingly needed to respond to the growing impacts of accelerating climate change on rural women's livelihoods in less developed countries creating constraints on sustainable development. This study...
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is heavily dependent on agriculture as their adaptive capacities are perceived to be below. Therefore, this study aimed …
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. Impairments were mostly driven by corporate loans concentrated in specific sectors, such as agriculture and manufacturing, and to … some extent by retail mortgage loans. While results suggest that the profitability of banks is impacted by additional …
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-level economic data can be used to estimate farm-level profitability of individual crops and respective cropping systems and thereby … approach called Profitability Assessment Model (PAM) is developed, tested and validated. This new modeling approach follows the … Beantwortung dieser Frage wird ein neuer Modellierungsansatz, das Profitability Assessment Model (PAM), entwickelt, getestet und …
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order to determine the level of profitability or feasibility regarding this economic sector, respectively agriculture. In … economic efficiency of the Romanian agricultural sector. Determining the level of profitability of agriculture is very … order to be able to determine the global economic efficiency in the agriculture of Romania, first of all, indicators of the …
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Agricultural production systems are a composite of philosophy, adoptability, and careful analysis of risks and rewards. The two dominant typologies include conventional and organics, while biotechnology (GM) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) represent situational modifiers. We conducted a...
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Using an exhaustive panel dataset of the German agricultural sector, this paper is evaluating the relationship between climate conditions and land prices. The main advantage of this so-called hedonic approach is the consideration of the full range of adaptation options to the climatic...
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