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Wetlands provide many important goods and services to human societies, and generate nonuse values as well. Wetlands are …, infrastructure, agriculture, recreation and nature conservation. The formulation of alternative development scenarios is dominated by … land use and land cover options that are consistent with the stimulation of agriculture, nature or recreation. Two …
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agriculture. Then, an econometric, dynamic and partial equilibrium commodity model for the Spanish agrifood sector that allows for …
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This paper investigates the role that information plays in the decision by subsistence farmers to deforest, and generates a body of evidence from three Latin American studies demonstrating that information about agricultural techniques and general agricultural education are important to tropical...
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Runoff disregards territorial boundaries, affects farmers as well as other users of space, and necessitates collective action if it is to be combatted. In this article, based on the case of Upper-Normandy, we show that geographical proximity can play a determining role in the struggle against...
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The replacement of wage-labour farms by family farms in Central and Eastern Europe during the transformation has been more limited than was initially expected. In this paper a formal framework is developed in order to analyse the behaviour of family farms and socialist-style farms in the...
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Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
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Decompositions of productivity indices contribute to our understanding of what drives the observed productivity changes by providing a detailed picture of their constituents. This paper presents the most comprehensive decomposition of total factor productivity (TFP) to date. Starting from the...
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agriculture through subsidies and credits have limited rural development and contributed to weak, inefficient agriculture. Credits …
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Les ressources en combustibles fossiles étant limitées, l’homme cherche aujourd’hui des combustibles et carburants de substitution. Les biocarburants et bicombustibles sont d’actualité, mais l’exploitation agricole en vue de production de ce type de produits risque de se faire aux...
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The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture, some 10,000 years ago, triggered the first demographic explosion … that reason, most anthropologists regard the adoption of agriculture as an economical puzzle. I show, using a neoclassical … economic model, that there is nothing puzzling about the adoption of agriculture. Agriculture brings four technological changes …
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