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California Water Wars: Tough Choices at Woolf Farming

Baker, Gregory A.; Sampson, Alana N.; Harwood, Michael J. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 16 (2013) 2

The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Assocation. www.ifama.org

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Climate change in Australia: agricultural impacts and adaptation

Kingwell, Ross S. - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 14 (2006)

facilitating farmersâ€™ adaptation to climate change. Farmers are likely to face additional costs of capital adjustment due to …

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Economics of Co-Existence Measures of GM and Conventional Maize in Spain and Germany

Petzoldt, Marina; Menrad, Klaus; Reitmeier, Daniela - 2007

In this paper the costs of the two basic co-existence measures buffer strips and discard widths were investigated for … calculated the costs for each measure considering distances of 20 m, 50 m and 100 m, GM maize adoption rates of 30% and 50% as … well as several economic assumptions. The results show an independency of costs from the GM adoption rate. There are …

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Relationships between Agricultural policies and Environmental Effects in Japan: An Environmental-Economic Integrated Model Approach

Sasaki, Hiroki - 2010

This study investigates the optimal agricultural land use allocation and nitrogen application to arepresentative Japanese farm. The site-specific nature of numerous agri-environmental issues necessitates analysis ata disaggregated level in order to capture the underlying heterogeneity of...

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Evaluating the efficiency of a N-input tax under different policy scenarios at different scales

Petsakos, Athanasios; Jayet, Pierre-Alain - 2010

Nitrate pollution from agriculture is an important environmental problem, caused bythe excessive use of inorganic fertilizers. The internalization of this externality, via a tax onmineral nitrogen, could lead to a second best solution, reducing nitrate emissions. Severalauthors suggest that a...

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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability

Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005

The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...

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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

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Integrated assessment of the environmental, economic and social impacts of land use change using a GIS format – the CLUES model

Harris, Simon; Elliott, Sandy; McBride, Graham; Shankar, Ude - 2009

The CLUES model is an integrated catchment based model that designed to assist policy makers in understanding the implications of land use scenarios for water quality and a range of other indicators. CLUES integrates a number of existing models from several research providers, including SPARROW...

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A Risk Analysis of Converting CRP Acres to a Wheat-Sorghum-Fallow Rotation

Williams, Jeffery R.; Llewelyn, Richard V.; Pendell, … - 2008

This study examines the economic potential of producing a wheat (Triticum aesitivum) and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) rotation with three different tillage strategies compared to the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in a semi-arid region. This research uses stochastic efficiency...

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