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Klimawandelbedingte Ertragsveränderungen und Flächennutzung (KlimErtrag)
Söder, Mareike; Berg-Mohnicke, Michael; Bittner, Marlene; … - 2022
Wir geben eine Übersicht über den Stand des Wissens zu den Klimafolgen für den deutschen Pflanzenbau und generieren …
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European Policies towards Palm Oil - Sorting Out some Facts
Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271184
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526704
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South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Dube, Sikhalazo; Scholes, Robert J.; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-35, pp. 1-54
The projected changes in planted area, yield per area, net exports/imports and prices for five major agricultural crops in South Africa were simulated using the projections of four Global Circulation Models (GCMs) under three socio-economic scenarios. The GCM projections show consistent strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321495
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Agricultural Contracts in Mindanao: the Case of Banana and Pineapple
Digal, Larry N. - 2007
Contract growing has been defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms under forward agreements, usually at predetermined prices for the production and supply of agricultural products (Eaton and Shepherd 2001). As such, it offers a solution to a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429871
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US food security and climate change: Agricultural futures
Takle, Eugene S.; Gustafson, David; Beachy, Roger; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-34, pp. 1-41
Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. Changes in trends of weather conditions projected by global climate models will challenge physiological limits of crops and exacerbate the global food challenge by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317974
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The impact of price regulations on regional welfare and agricultural productivity in China
Selim, Sheikh - 2011
The nineties' agricultural reform in China that was aimed at deregulating the agricultural market eventually resulted in a huge drop in agricultural production and a high rate of inflation in agricultural prices; this apparently motivated the government to take over the control of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288841
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Biodiversity and Economic Growth: Stabilization Versus Preservation of the Ecological Dynamics
Borghesi, Simone; Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo - 2004
This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would … naturally emerge in the absence of human activity. The loss of biodiversity may induce policy-makers to implement defensive … exist in the absence of human intervention. This suggests that there might exist a conflict between preserving biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324896
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Bioprospection: From the Economics of Contracts to Reflexive Governance
Dedeurwaerdere, Tom - 2004
Bioprospection practices have proliferated as biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies engage in the collection and genetic screening of biological and genetic resources throughout the world. The purpose of this article is to examine the competing proposals for the institutional framing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324928
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Reducing Acidification: The Benefits of Increased Nature Quality. Investigating the Possibilities of the Contingent Valuation Method
Ruijgrok, E.C.M. - 2004
In order to complete cost benefit analyses of acidification policies, an attempt was made to monetarize the benefits of increased nature quality. So far, several benefits of acidification abatement, such as reduced health risks, had been determined, but the benefits of increased nature quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324944