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Economic Impacts of Yellow Starthistle on California Ranchers

van Kooten, Gerrit Cornelis; Eagle, Alison; Eiswerth, Mark - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2006

widespread non-crop weed in California, resulting in serious damage to forage on natural range and improved pasture. A survey was …-wide economic losses, due to YST in California. Total losses of livestock forage value due to YST on private land for the state of ….45 million/year. Together, these costs are the equivalent of 6-7% of the total annual harvested pasture value for the state …

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Agricultural risks and risk management in the current context of Chinese economy

Wang, H. Holly - In: Agricultural Finance Review 73 (2013) April, pp. 245-254

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a big picture of the current context of Chinese economy, the government policies on agriculture, and the role of agricultural risks and risk management against this background. Design/methodology/approach – The new Chinese economic challenges...

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Livestock mortality insurance: development and challenges

Boyd, Milton; Pai, Jeffrey; Porth, Lysa - In: Agricultural Finance Review 73 (2013) April, pp. 233-244

Purpose – The purpose of this research is examine the development of livestock mortality insurance, and associated … challenges, in order to provide an improved understanding regarding the operation of livestock mortality insurance. Design …/methodology/approach – In a many countries, livestock mortality insurance has been either unavailable or underdeveloped. A descriptive analysis …

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Kashmir Peasant Economy under Dogra’s: A Case Study of Agrarian Produce and Livestock 1885-1925 A.D

Bhat, Jamsheed; Khanday, S.A. - In: Journal of Social Economics Research 1 (2014) 1, pp. 1-8

entitled “Kashmir Peasant Economy under Dogra’s: A Case study of Agrarian produce and Livestock 1885-1925 A.D.”, is a humble … yet sincere attempt by the researcher to critically examine the agricultural produce and livestock of peasant economy and … peasant economy in the light of rural produce and livestock. It elaborates on a wide variety of crops (both Kharif and Rabi …

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Development of Rural Economies in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Desarrollo de las economías rurales en América Latina y el Caribe

Berdegué, Julio A.; Piñeiro, Martín; Escobar, Germán; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Poverty has a high social cost for countries of the region: it negatively affects all aspects of society because of migration to the cities, destabilizing political consequences, and the pressures that poverty exerts on the environment. This book looks for new ways to alleviate rural poverty,...

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On the Number of Bidders and Auction Performance: when More Means Less

Larue, Bruno; Jeddy, Mohamed; Pouliot, Sébastien - Centre de recherche en économie de l'environnement, de … - 2013

We first show in the context of sequential multi-unit auctions under complete information that a seller’s revenue may increase or decrease as the number of buyers increases, even when the additional bidders win an object. We use data from the Quebec daily hog auction to empirically analyze the...

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An investigation of biogas production potential from livestock and slaughterhouse wastes

Afazeli, Hadi; Jafari, Ali; Rafiee, Shahin; Nosrati, Mohsen - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 34 (2014) C, pp. 380-386

among the organic waste types utilized to generate biogas. Every year, large amounts of livestock waste discharges and … aim, biogas production potential from heavy and light livestock and poultry wastes were examined. Slaughterhouse wastes …, containing rumen, intestines, stomach and blood from heavy and light livestock, and also poultry blood were examined. The results …

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Nonlinear dynamics of livestock assets: Evidence from Ethiopia

Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Dercon, Stefan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

dynamics of livestock asset holdings in rural Ethiopia. We find evidence of distribution-dependent dynamics and multiple … equilibria for tropical livestock units. …

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Options to reduce the environmental effects of livestock production – Comparison of two economic models

Stehfest, Elke; Berg, Maurits van den; Woltjer, Geert; … - In: Agricultural Systems 114 (2013) C, pp. 38-53

Global livestock production accounts for about 80% of global land use, is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss …

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Impact of biofuel policies on livestock production in the United States

Miljkovic, Dragan; Shaik, Saleem; Braun, Dane - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 34 (2012) 6, pp. 817-831

This study was conducted to analyze the direct and indirect effects of ethanol policy on livestock production. Results … of the theoretical and empirical model indicate the possibility of ethanol policy affecting livestock production in the …

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