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The expansion of modern agriculture and global biodiversity decline : an integrated assessment

Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2017 - This version: July 2017

The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food preferences of an increasing …, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global …

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Knowledge generation and technical change : institutional innovation in agriculture

Wolf, Steven A. (contributor); Zilberman, David (contributor) - 2001

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Convergence between agricultural research and extension

In: Economic developments in India : quarterly update : … (2011) 157, pp. 192-196

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When to go local, when to go edible : trade, technology and food security

Koch, William L.; Sadler, Thomas R. - 2009

We develop a variation of the Grossman-Helpman Protection for Saleʺ model, where organized groups, representing various sectors of the economy, influence government policy. In particular, this paper focuses on the rise of food prices and a greater level of influence of a food sector lobby,...

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Farms versus firms in economic development : the assumptions and consequences of learning dynamics in agriculture and mnufacturing

Srinivas, Smita; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2015

-recognizes learning and innovation in agriculture and its crossover supplier segments with manufacturing. The sections analyze … manufacturing bias; demand's effects; and differences in the technological process and links between agriculture and manufacturing …. An evolutionary approach has potential for understanding both manufacturing as well as agriculture, but should be more …

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Measuring the benefit-cost ratio of public IPM technology transfer programs : an optimal control framework and an application to Nepalese agriculture

Wiebelt, Manfred - 2000

agriculture to illustrate the dynamic adoption process for IPM. The results indicate that public IPM technology transfer programs …

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AgriLOVE: agriculture, land-use and technical change in an evolutionary, agent-based model

Coronese, Matteo; Occelli, Martina; Lamperti, Francesco; … - 2021

This paper presents a novel agent-based model of land use and technological change in the agricultural sector under environmental boundaries, finite available resources and changing land productivity. In particular, we model a spatially explicit economy populated by boundedly-rational farmers...

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