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Water management in Iran: what is causing the looming crisis?

Madani, Kaveh - In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 4 (2014) 4, pp. 315-328

water crisis: (1) rapid population growth and inappropriate spatial population distribution; (2) inefficient agriculture …

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Climatologists’ patterns of conveying climate science to the agricultural community

Wilke, Adam; Morton, Lois - In: Agriculture and Human Values 32 (2015) 1, pp. 99-110

Climatologists have a unique role in providing various stakeholders and public data users with weather and climate information. In the north central region (NCR) of the United States, farmers, the agricultural sector, and policy makers are important audiences for climate science. As local and...

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The problem with the farmer’s voice

Stone, Glenn; Flachs, Andrew - In: Agriculture and Human Values 31 (2014) 4, pp. 649-653

In this essay we present three biases that make it difficult to represent farmer voices in a meaningful way. These biases are information bias, individual bias, and short-term bias. We illustrate these biases through two case studies. One is the case of Golden Rice in the Philippines and the...

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Land Misallocation and Productivity

Restuccia, Diego; Santaeulalia-Llopis, Raul - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2015

Using detailed household-farm level data from Malawi, we measure real farm total factor productivity (TFP) controlling for a wide array of factor inputs, land quality, and transitory shocks. The distribution of farm TFP has substantial dispersion but factor inputs are roughly evenly spread among...

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Strengthening governance across scales in aquatic agricultural systems

Ratner, B.D.; Barman, B.; Cohen, P.; Mam, K.; Nagoli, J.; … - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …

Aquatic agricultural systems in developing countries face increasing competition from multiple stakeholders operating from local to national and regional scales over rights to access and use natural resourcesùland, water, wetlands, and fisheriesùessential to rural livelihoods. A key...

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VALUING RISK TRADEOFFS AND VOLUNTARY INSECTICIDE REDUCTION

LOHR, Luanne; PARK, Timothy; HIGLEY, Leon - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, … - 1996

Farmer's willingness to voluntarily reduce insecticide use is not considered when regulatory approaches toenvironmental protection are proposed. Regulations that require behavior that would voluntarily be undertaken are excessive and economically inefficient. Using survey data from a contingent...

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Las empresas del sector agropecuario: racionalidad económica y gestión

Rendón, Sol Bibiana Mora - In: REVISTA AD-MINISTER (2012)

El presente artículo es el resultado de una investigación desarrollada en algunas asociaciones de pequeños y medianos productores agropecuarios en la región del Suroeste antioqueño, y propone un análisis sobre la gestión en estas organizaciones empresariales del sector agropecuario,...

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Agriculture in Portugal: linkages with industry and services

Gaspar, João; Pina, Gilson; Simões, Marta C. N. - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2014

We investigate the links between agriculture and non-agricultural sectors in Portugal by assessing the existence of … productivity show that productivity gains in services and industry feedback into productivity growth in agriculture, although the … synergies between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, and provide agriculture with the necessary technological and …

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State productivity growth in agriculture: catching-up and the business cycle

Ball, V.; San-Juan-Mesonada, Carlos; Ulloa, Camilo - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 42 (2014) 3, pp. 327-338

productivity growth in agriculture. As with the rate of catch-up, the embodiment effect was much stronger during low economic …

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Russie : la nouvelle question agraire

Pouliquen - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2001

En Russie, la transition post-communiste a dramatiquement réduit la production agricole, du fait de la forte réduction de son soutien antérieurement exorbitant. Mais l'inefficacité des filières d'aval et d'amont et les privatisations internes des kolkhozes et sovkhozes l'ont en outre...

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