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Benefits of pollution monitoring technology for greenhouse gas offset markets

Ando, Amy W.; Mukherjee, Shibashis - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 122-136

. We use a hypothetical case study of a situation in which farmers can reduce nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Midwest … nitrogen application rates. However, variation in the benefits to farmers of eliminating price discounts may mean efficient …

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Weather insurance design with optimal hedging effectiveness

Kapphan, Ines - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

I construct index-based weather insurance contracts with optimal hedging effectiveness for the insured or maximal profits for the insurer. In contrast to earlier work, I refrain from imposing functional form assumptions on the stochastic relationship between weather and yield and from...

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Aspects of energy intensity of agriculture

Picková, Alice; Vilhelm, Václav - In: Ekonomika a managment 2009 (2009) 4

The objective of the contribution, which is based on the research of National agency for agricultural research (NAZV QH 71016) carried out between 2007 and 2010, is to present the initial energetic and economic situation of the Czech agriculture. Based on the published data, the position of the...

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Coping with ex-ante regulations for planting Bt maize: the Portuguese experience

Skevas, Theodoros; Wesseler, Justus; Fevereiro, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article investigates the attitude and practices of Bt and non-Bt maize farmers in Portugal. Thirty-seven Bt maize … farmers were interviewed, representing 22.5% of the total number of Bt maize notifications in the country and 31.5% of the … total area planted with Bt maize in 2007. Additionally, 66 non-Bt maize farmers were surveyed in an attempt to investigate …

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Acceptance of biotechnology and social-cultural implications in Ghana

Quaye, Wilhemina; Yawson, Ivy; Yawson, Robert M.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

interviewed were not in favor of GM foods. To this group acceptance of GM foods would make farmers loose focus on the traditional …

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The strategic role of the Food Research Institute in productivity enhancement and the private sector development in Ghana

Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The Private Sector Development Project (PSDP) was a culmination of the renewed commitment of the Government of Ghana to accelerate the pace of development of Ghana’s private sector. The project was also a direct result of the Business Community’s own assessment of Lingering issues which...

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A modeling framework for the analysis of biomass production in a land constrained economy – the example of Austria

Stürmer, Bernhard; Schmidt, Johannes; Schmid, Erwin; … - Department für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, … - 2011

Ambitious renewable energy targets have been implemented in the EU that can only be attained if further measures are taken to boost biomass production for energy uses on agricultural land. The aim of this discussion paper is to explore consequences for land use and environment if biomass...

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Where to sell the next cappuccino? Income per capita and coffee consumption

Galindo, Arturo Jose - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2694-2700

This paper estimates the world demand for coffee using a dataset for 88 countries from 1990 to 2005, and dynamic panel data estimators. Results suggest that the income elasticity of demand is non constant and varies according to a country's income level. Higher income countries have lower income...

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The paths of coffee: A brief economic history of coffee in Colombia

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper develops a brief history of coffee in Colombia identifying the processes of change in the geography and populations. From the eighteenth to the twentieth century, coffee cultivation represented the basis of household income. Changes in rural and urban culture of the nineteenth century...

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Forecasting seasonality in prices of potatoes and onions: challenge between geostatistical models, neuro fuzzy approach and Winter method

Amiri, Arshia; Bakhshoodeh, Mohamad; Najafi, Bahaeddin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper, we studied the ability of geostatistical models (ordinary kriging (OK) and Inverse distance weighting (IDW)), adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and Winter method for prediction of seasonality in prices of potatoes and onions in Iran over the seasonal period 1986_2001....

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