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profitability of farms is a consequence of pronounced structural deficiencies due to a quite unfavourable workforce-land ratio on … farming over leaving the sector. Nevertheless, income from agriculture is to a substantial extent complemented by off … zwischen Beschäftigten in der Landwirtschaft ist wesentlich höher als der zwischen durchschnittlichen Arbeitnehmern in beiden …
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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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There has been much discussion on climate change and its adverse effects on agriculture, including excessive loss of … food production. In regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture is the major source of household livelihoods … rich Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture dataset, I find that the intensity of chemical …
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Changing climate and weather patterns have resulted in reduced agricultural productivity in some parts of the world and … potentially propitious means of adaptation to changing climate conditions. Forecasts of extreme weather events are especially … valuable in resource-poor settings where climate-related vulnerability is high, such as for smallholder farmers in the …
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agriculture is likely to be smooth. …
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significantly affect their profitability. Young females engaged in the rice and maize value chains could benefit from setting up …
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The latest generation of global climate models robustly projects that the summer monsoon rainfall in India will … predict district-specific crop yield based on the climate projections of eight different climate models of the Coupled Model …
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profitability of farms is a consequence of pronounced structural deficiencies due to a quite unfavourable workforce-land ratio on … farming over leaving the sector. Nevertheless, income from agriculture is to a substantial extent complemented by off … zwischen Beschäftigten in der Landwirtschaft ist wesentlich höher als der zwischen durchschnittlichen Arbeitnehmern in beiden …
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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369064
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
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