Showing 1 - 10 of 309
demands for soil phosphorus and sulfur increase. Major outcomes of the research were a better understanding of the nutrient … dynamics in South-East Asia and the development of a new and more reliable soil test for available sulfur. The new test (KCl-40 … soil tests conducted for growers in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, although its significance as far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326005
FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH PROJECT, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457074
. Intensification of management has led to biodiversity loss, erosion and depletion of soil nutrients. Bamboo is rooted deeply in … systems, physiologically relying on mixed forestry on sloping land to access water resources and maintain the soil. This … predominance of neoliberal market norms and secondly the need for a cross-cultural pluralistic approach to conservation involving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880116
Key Policy Points - Game Management Areas (GMAs) in Zambia aim to combine nature conservation with economic empowerment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530578
Incentives for REDD − i.e., reductions in emissions from deforestation and degradation − motivate application of static economic modeling of land use to assess heterogeneity over space in the business-as-usual baselines for land use required for forest policy evaluations. That some forested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068952
A análise da volatilidade nos preços recebidos pelos produtores do café no mercado internacional demonstrou a instabilidade na renda dos produtores no Brasil, Índia, Colômbia, México e Etiópia. Esta instabilidade, decorrente da persistência e do agrupamento da volatilidade foi observada...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442772
Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and developing countries. We investigate how policy and market factors influence firms’ (or other potential innovators’) decisions on innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444336
This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444590
Paper accepted for presentation at the 27th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Beijing China, August 16-22, 2009, (Ref 690)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444856
The study explores a long memory conditional volatility model on international grain markets, demonstrating importance of modeling both temporal effects of volatility and long memory process. This study adopts six different volatility models, nested in an ARMA(p,q)- FIGARCH(P,D,Q), to capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445769