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The approach regarding the efficiency of the labor force in agriculture, but also from the perspective of labor …, implicitly also of the agricultural sector. Agriculture is considered one of the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and … therefore economic activity. This paper investigates the effects of agriculture on labor productivity and the agricultural labor …
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Pesticide use in agriculture poses several risks to both human health and non-target agro-ecosystems. Due to lack of …
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Water is a key input to agricultural production and therefore fluctuations in water availability may impact agricultural productivity and revenue. Climate science tells us that most of these fluctuations are increasingly resulting from intra-year, instead of interyearly, shifts in the timing and...
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sector and justifies why we can conceive of a macroeconomics of agriculture . The primary sector is characterized by product … — from agriculture to the rest of the economy — forward linkages — from the macroeconomy and the international economy to … agriculture — and second-round feed-back interdependent linkages. Models and studies attempting to quantify the linkages are then …
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strongly supporting sustainable agriculture. We test regulatory measures aimed at protecting common environmental goods and …
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In agricultural activity, the performance and competitiveness concepts are interest targets for decisionmakers, regardless of their representation level (production unit and / or product level, activity sector and / or national and / or international level). The way of materializing these two...
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economy and focus on the interface of ecosystem- economy relations. Agriculture forms a major part of this interface. The …
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. Population density plays an important role in harvesting societies, i.e. those that depend on agriculture and natural resources …
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The paper employs statistical hypothesis tests to explore the question of whether natural hazards (hail and tornadoes being considered here) are or are not intertemporally random. The answer to this question, at least for these two hazards, is surprising and has important policy implications:...
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The main goal of the present work is to reveal the advantages of introducing the so called structural coefficient (SC) into economic analysis. SC is defined as an indicator of the similarity between a given sectoral structure and another, which is admitted as a referential. Consequently, the...
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