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Land degradation in the Philippines is a serious environmental problem with long-term implications for the sustainability of agricultural production. Protection of the resource base has thus become a policy priority, whether in terms of improving crop management in the lowlands or more urgently,...
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Presentation at the ASU Convocation Center, Jonesboro, Ark. - Feb. 16, 2000
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influences on output are captured by the MFP ‘residual.’ However in some industries – mining, agriculture, and utilities – output … can also depend significantly on unmeasured inputs of natural resources. Rainfall in agriculture is an obvious example … of recent large negative changes in MFP growth in the mining, agriculture and utilities industries in Australia to …
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has generated structural disadvantages in Romanian agriculture that led to disparities in performance compared to the … countries with developed agriculture. The analysis presented in this paper highlights the quantitative and qualitative … performance of agriculture in Romania and developed countries (Germany and France) or which later joined the EU (Bulgaria, Hungary …
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The buffering function of wetlands is one of the most efficient mechanisms for regulating agricultural runoffs and water pollution. The aim of this paper is to show how farmers could use wetland abatement as a way to achieve pollution targets set by a regulator in a nutrient allowance market....
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The application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in agriculture is increasingly important. E-Agriculture … communication processes. More specifically, e-Agriculture involves the conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and … on agriculture.ICTs promise a fundamental change in all aspects of our lives, including knowledge dissemination, social …
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This article focuses on the conditions of emergence of food quality in Western European rural areas, and confronts the trajectories of agricultural areas with their capacity to develop qualification systems for products. We use an original methodology crossing agricultural and quality typologies...
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By examining the relation between the greater Paris Region and its agriculture, this paper sheds light on the questions … region, but the economic weight of agriculture is quite low. Supply and demand are disconnected and farming position is under … presentation of local agriculture and agri-food sectors, and to the alternatives (local foods, organics) to this model. The second …
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In 1998, the following article was published in the scientific research journal Science : ?Can Patents Deter Innovation … ? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research?. M.A. Heller and R.S. Eisenberg explore how the expansion of intellectual property … rights in the field of biomedical research leads to an underuse of knowledge relating to genomics. More specifically, the …
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