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Agriculture is a significant contributor to rising atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) levels, which is expected to result …
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The French “Ecophyto 2018” program calls for a 50% reduction in pesticide use. Local authorities are required to design cost-effective measures to minimize the impact of farmers’ pesticides on water resources. A successful implementation of these new measures can only be achieved through a...
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influence the future of agriculture within each scenario. The simulations are based on farming models developed for two French …
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The objective of this work is to identify the effects in which the intensity of GHG emissions (EI) in agriculture can … intensity of emissions in agriculture. For that, we used the ‘complete decomposition’ technique in the 1995–2008 period, for a … in agriculture (FN effect), (iii) the change in use of Nitrogen in agriculture per ha of utilized agricultural area (NA …
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This paper explores the secular decline in the employment share in agriculture as a result of productivity growth in … the agricultural sector. I study an equation that states that employment share in agriculture is determined by the … subsistence constraint and productivity in agriculture. Given the calibrated value for subsistence level of consumption in …
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This paper provides new estimates of small holder farmers' technical efficiency and its principal determinants using a rural Tigray micro finance survey data collected in 2009. Both descriptive and econometric methods are used. The hypotheses tests confirm the adequacy of Cobb-Douglas over...
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This paper analyzes the state and conditions of aquaculture in South China Sea both from technological and economic perspectives. We state from the basic marginal cost analysis and construct a two sector model for this issue. Base on the comparison on the cost between aquaculture sector and...
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Predation attracts a relatively high portion of labor in developing countries and obstructs development. Agriculture … goods must be reached and, consequently, poor countries devote more resources to agriculture; agriculture is more land …
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, financial institutions perceive agriculture as highly risky to be financed. In fact there are seven major risks immanent for … agriculture: production, market, legal, human, technical, financial and political risks. Anyway, young farmers should not be … farmers because of their courage, entrepreneurship and ability to understand modern agriculture and finance. …
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International Scientific Conference „SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA … results of scientific research on the integrated and interdisciplinary project No. III 46006 „SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND …
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