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The rural household epitomizes the central socioeconomic unit of the vernacular village. The territorial resources, livestock and human capital shape the particular features of each place and zone. The present study relies upon field research, namely a questionnaire undertaken in 354 rural...
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By improving wildlife habitat and air and water quality, CRP has significantly increased the number and variety of wildlife, attracting bird watchers, hunters, anglers, and other outdoor recreation enthusiasts, who then spend money in rural areas. In 2004, ERS research confirmed that the CRP’s...
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The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) offers incentives for producers and landowners to voluntarily retire cropland. The program’s benefits to the environment, CRP participants, and other crop farmers have made it a recurring focus of farm program legislation. While anecdotal evidence...
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CRP is approaching its 20th year of operation. From its inception, concerns have been raised that by retiring millions of acres of cropland, the program could disadvantage farming communities already hard hit by farm sector consolidation and globalization. Clearly the CRP does not benefit...
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forms of “quasi-commons” (the sharing and use of communal land) emerging in rural areas, including the farmland shareholding … cooperatives and transforming rural land management rights into shares in joint ventures. There are divergent views held by Chinese … academics and policy makers about “quasi-commons” in rural China, as well as the direction of change in the rural land system …
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Digital economy is the new platform to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy by using the power of digital technologies. Now a day's digital technologies are being increasingly used in our day to day lives. The concept of Digital Economy is most favourable in...
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land restoration programs are crucial for improving policymaking. This study presents findings from a systematic review of … that there is a lack of well-designed impact assessments in this field. Promises on land restoration leading to … Bereich an gut konzipierten Folgeabschätzungen mangelt. Versprechungen über die Wiederherstellung von Land, die zu einer …
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A better understanding of strength and weaknesses in rural systems through an adequate set of comprehensive and regularly updated indicators, indicates the necessary prerequisite for a flexible response to policy needs, such as policy targeting and monitoring rural development.The present study...
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