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In the US rural (non-MSA) areas have lagged behind urban areas both in terms of per capita personal incomes (PCPI) and poverty rates. This study examines how 2019 state-level ratios of urban to rural PCPI varies with state-level urbanization rates, poverty rates and unemployment rates. The...
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Innovation and insurance are two important options for the agricultural sector to adapt to climate change. However, how these two options interact with each other has not been documented in the literature. This paper intends to fill this gap by investigating the effects of crop insurance on...
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After identifying organic agriculture hotspots using spatial statistics, we estimate a treatment effects model that … investigating the impact of general agriculture hotspots. On the other hand, our result is robust to alternative hotspot definitions …
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Although agricultural greenhouse gases (GHGs) are emitted from a wide variety of activities and regions, many mitigation opportunities exist. This article describes efforts undertaken by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and partners (2007 to present) to convert abatement opportunities into...
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constructing a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Between the FTAA issues to be negotiated, agriculture was particularly … agriculture came to a deadlock. Game Theory was used to formalize the explanation, setting the scenario as one arena of two … the players, so that the negotiation in agriculture came to a deadlock …
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International agreements are likely to stimulate greenhouse gas mitigation efforts. Agriculture can participate either … where agriculture could sell emission offsets. Several agricultural opportunities are available at a cost of $10-25 per ton … dioxide. In the longer run, agriculture's role may diminish because many agricultural strategies offer only one-time gains and …
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