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Linking biodiversity, land-use and incomes at the farm level: an interdisciplinary modelling approach

Acs, Szvetlana; Dallimer, Martin; Hanley, Nick; Gaston, … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2009

Recent decades have witnessed substantial losses in biodiversity in Europe, partly driven by the ecological changes … associated with intensification of agricultural production. These changes have particularly affected biodiversity in marginal … subsidies and agrienvironmental payments. The production decisions have an effect on biodiversity, although the precise links …

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Agriculture and the conservation of wildlife biodiversity – comparative analysis of policies in the USA and the EU (PowerPoint)

Nitsch, Heike; Manale, Andrew; Osterburg, Bernhard - USDA Economists Group - 2009

Presented to USDA Economists Group, Washington, DC

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An Investigation into the Net Benefits of Revegetating Agricultural Land with Indigenous Species in the Dryland Section of the Goulburn-Broken Catchment Area

Trapnell, Lindsay N. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2003

Benefits ascribed to the revegetation of farming landscapes include enhancement of biodiversity, reduction in the …

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Property rights of landholders in non-captive wildlife and prospects for conservation

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2003

In order to reduce the rate of human-induced biodiversity loss of wild species, it has become increasingly important to …

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Marginality and Restoration of Olive Plantations in Andalusia

Arriaza Balmón, Manuel; Guzman, Jose R.; Nekhay, Olexandr - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

This paper presents the first results of the initial stages of a three years research project on optimization of the use of agricultural lands subject to risk of abandonment. After devising a physical marginality index for olive cultivation based on soil quality and slope, we estimate an...

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Woolworths Farming for the Future

King, Lucy; Thobela, Suzan - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) B

The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org

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Does tendering conservation contracts with performance payments generate additional benefits?

Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to supply non-marketed environmental services may need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and submitting the contracts to competitive tender....

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Evaluating conservation auctions with limited information: the policy maker’s predicament

Schilizzi, Steven; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

constraint. Auction theory has mostly focused on target-constrained auctions and is less well developed for this type of auction …

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An Iterative Auction for Spatially Contiguous Land Management: An Experimental Analysis

Banerjee, Simanti; Shortle, James S.; Kwasnica, Anthony M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Tackling the problem of ecosystem services degradation is an important policy challenge. Different types of economic instruments have been employed by conservation agencies to meet this challenge. Notable among them are Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes that pay private landowners to...

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Market incentives for biodiversity conservation in a saline-affected landscape: farmer response and feedback

Clayton, Helena - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005

regional biodiversity goals through on-ground works. The case study auction is the Auction for Landscape Recovery which is a … biodiversity conservation, salinity control and water quality improvements. A substantial component of the pilot research is an … investigation of the technical aspects of conserving biodiversity across a saline landscape, and how to select tenders to achieve an …

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