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The CAFO Hothouse : Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture and the Law
Cassuto, David N. - 2014
The issue of climate change has at long last made its way into mainstream policy discussions in the United States. However, the focus both in the United States and internationally has been on reducing energy production and transportation emissions. This has led the media, policy makers and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193208
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Short-term global crop acreage response to international food prices and implications of volatility
Haile, Mekbib G.; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Braun, Joachim von - 2013
(expected) crop prices, oil and fertilizer prices and market risks as main determinants for farmers' decisions on how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712556
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Short-Term Global Crop Acreage Response to International Food Prices and Implications of Volatility
Haile, Mekbib - 2013
(expected) crop prices, oil and fertilizer prices and market risks as main determinants for farmers' decisions on how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085893
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Worldwide Acreage and Yield Response to International Price Change and Volatility : A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis for Wheat, Rice, Corn, and Soybeans
Haile, Mekbib; Kalkuhl, Matthias; von Braun, Joachim - 2015
This article estimates a worldwide aggregate supply response for key agricultural commodities — wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans — by employing a newly-developed multi-country, crop-calendar-specific, seasonally disaggregated model with price changes and price volatility applied accordingly....
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Moving Toward Food Democracy : Better Food, New Farmers, and the Myth of Feeding the World
Hamilton, Neil D. - 2015
that control the food market are businesses and large institutions; they are "Big Food." The power has to go back to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176061
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Food Court
Czarnezki, Jason J. - 2018
This article, focusing on produce and grain, discusses the environmental and climate change impacts of food production, processing, packaging, and distribution, which ultimately contributes to both economic and social costs. The article addresses environmental energy costs in the food supply
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913700
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Get Green or Get Out : Decoupling Environmental from Economic Objectives in Agricultural Regulation
Chen, James Ming - 2014
American agricultural law's environmental record is a legacy of legislative failure. Most of the blame can and should be attributed to the failure of the law to separate ecological objectives from competing and ultimately contradictory economic objectives. Two strains of agroecological fallacies...
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Estimating the Size of the Potential Market for the Kyoto Flexibility Mechanisms
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
market for all three flexibility mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol over the first commitment period 2008-2012, both on the … the potential demand in the greenhouse gas offset market. Then, the paper provides a quantitative assessment of the … potential market for Kyoto mechanisms and quantify the implications of the EU proposal on the basis of the individual national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173274
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Estimating the Size of the Potential Market for the Kyoto Flexibility Mechanisms
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
lower overall cost. This paper aims to estimate the size of the potential market for all three mechanisms over the first … greenhouse gas offset market. Then, it assesses the implications of the EU proposal for ceilings on the use of flexibility … scenarios. To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive study to estimate the size of the potential market for Kyoto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014131046
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Calculating costs of pig production with the InterPIG network
Haxsen, Gerhard - 2008
This working paper presents objectives, methods and the empirical basis of the international working group InterPIG. The members of the group act within an informal network as a base for a mutual exchange of data needed for a unique way to annually calculate the costs of pig production and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301091