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Water in the West
Fahlund, Andrew; Choy, Min L. Janny; Szeptycki, Leon - In: California Journal of Politics and Policy 6 (2014) 1, pp. 61-102
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Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Security
Londhe, Sunil - In: International Journal of Disease Control and … 1 (2016) 1, pp. 32-46
Many studies have demonstrated the sensitivities of crop yield to a changing climate, a major challenge for the agricultural research community is to relate these findings to the wider societal concern with food security. Apart from few exceptions, the likely impacts of climate change on...
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Irrigation Measurement System for Dry Areas Based on WSN
Granda, Juan; Almanza, Mauricio; Fontalvo, Jose; Calle, … - In: International Journal of Interdisciplinary … 9 (2017) 3, pp. 10-20
exceeded. Water pressure provides the kinematic energy used on irrigation systems to spray the water on the field. The amount … of water that the irrigation system can provide per hour should be carefully monitored to save water in dry areas. The …. Results show sensor nodes exhibit a 4% average error, and 9% packet loss maximum. Both values are adequate for crop irrigation …
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Costly (Dis)Agreement: Optimal Intervention, Income Redistribution, and Transfer Efficiency of Output Quotas in the Presence of Cheating
Giannakas, Konstantinos; Fulton, Murray - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 1 (2003) 1
This study builds on previous work by Giannakas and Fulton (2003, 2000) on the economics of output quotas in the presence of cheating by examining the efficiency of the policy in transferring income to producers as well as the optimal regulatory response to enforcement costs and farmer...
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Farm income variability and off‐farm diversification among Canadian farm operators
Jetté‐Nantel, Simon; Freshwater, David; Katchova, Ani L. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 71 (2011) 3, pp. 329-346
Purpose – For many farm families and operators across the OECD countries, off‐farm income has become a major determinant of their well‐being. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential role of off‐farm employment as a risk management tool among farm operators....
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Examining changes in fresh fruit and vegetable consumption over time and across regions in urban China
Ernest Liu, Kang; Chang, Hung‐Hao; Chern, Wen S. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 3, pp. 276-296
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to fill a knowledge gap by examining the changes in fruit and vegetable consumption of Chinese households. Design/methodology/approach – Using 1993 and 2001 household survey data from three selected provinces in China, the authors estimated a quantile...
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Impacts of agricultural public spending on Chinese food economy
Xu, Shiwei; Zhang, Yumei; Diao, Xinshen; Chen, Kevin Z. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 518-534
types of public spending in China. The effects of increased agricultural subsidies, agricultural R&D, and irrigation are …, price, and trade. The increased public spending on agricultural R&D, irrigation, and agricultural subsidy also has modest …
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Reforms, WTO, arbitrage efficiency and integration between the China‐US soybean markets
Han, Shengfei; He, Pei - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 3, pp. 318-341
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a new approach to market analysis, and test how the China‐US soybean market integration and arbitrage efficiency have changed across 1995/1‐/2004/1 – a period covering strengthened government efforts to join WTO, and the institutional...
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Trade and stock management to achieve national food security in India and China?
Dev, S. Mahendra; Zhong, Funing - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 7 (2015) 4, pp. 641-654
Purpose – China and India have to provide food security to 1.36 billion and 1.25 billion populations, respectively. The purpose of this paper is to address the roles of trade and stock management in achieving food security in these countries, such as the impacts of trade on consumer and...
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Quality of institutions and the BRIC countries agro-food exports
Bojnec, Štefan; Fertő, Imre; Fogarasi, József - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 6 (2014) 3, pp. 379-394
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of institutional quality ( IQ ) in exporting and importing countries on agro-food exports from the world's leading emerging economies: Brazil, the Russian Federation, India and China (BRIC countries). Design/methodology/approach...
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