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Assessing environmental management in agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a … environmental management in agriculture as eco-management associated with agricultural production. Second, it specifies spectrum of …. Third, it suggests stages in analysis and improvement of environmental management in agriculture including: identification …

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Interaction and non-neutral effects of factors in Chinese wheat production

Selim, Sheikh; Parvin, Naima; Patel, Vasita - 2010

In this paper we examine the role of the interaction between labour productivity and the use of factors in explaining the recent (1998-2007) 11% decline in wheat production in China. We employ a non-neutral stochastic production frontier approach that enables us to identify the interaction and...

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The impact of price regulations on regional welfare and agricultural productivity in China

Selim, Sheikh - 2011

The nineties' agricultural reform in China that was aimed at deregulating the agricultural market eventually resulted in a huge drop in agricultural production and a high rate of inflation in agricultural prices; this apparently motivated the government to take over the control of agricultural...

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Reforms, incentives, welfare and productivity growth in Chinese wheat production

Patel, Vasita; Selim, Sheikh - 2010

Following the rural reform in 1978 a series of agricultural reforms were introduced in China. The main aim of these reforms was to create incentives for the farmers to produce more. The nineties' price reform that was aimed at deregulating the agricultural market eventually resulted in a huge...

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Land measurement bias: Comparisons from global positioning system, self-reports, and satellite data

Dillon, Andrew; Rao, Lakshman Nagraj - 2018

Agricultural statistics derived from remote sensing data have been used primarily to compare land use information and changes over time. Nonclassical measurement error from farmer self-reports has been well documented in the survey design literature primarily in comparison to plots measured...

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An overview of Romanian agricultural indicators in the last years

Bularca, Elena; Toma, Elena - 2018

agriculture during 2005-2016. The main indicators monitored are the land fund development, area and crop production, livestock and … livestock production, number of agricultural holdings, economic accounts and prices in agriculture and agro …-environmental indicators. It was found that over time in Romanian agriculture were produced important changes both in terms of quantity and …

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Limitations on De-collectivisation in Central European Agriculture

Bezemer, Dirk J. - 2000

Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...

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Paying for gender? The gender price gap in Central Kenyan vegetable markets

Depenbusch, Lutz - 2017

We analyze the gender price gap (GPG) in Central Kenyan vegetable markets. Exploiting differences in the combination of the gender of the household head, the person controlling production, and the seller, we control for other gender related influences. We cannot identify a significant GPG for...

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The Climate Challenge for Agriculture and the Value of Climate Services: Application to Coffee-Farming in Peru

Lechthaler, Filippo; Vinogradova, Alexandra - 2016

The use of climate information in economic activities, typically provided by climate services, may serve as a possible adaptation strategy to changing climate conditions. The present paper analyzes the value of climate services aimed at improving agricultural productivity through a reduction in...

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Agricultural input subsidies and productivity: The case of Paraguayan farmers

Lopez, Cesar Augusto; Salazar, Lina; de Salvo, Carmine Paolo - 2017

It is a well-known fact that a great majority of countries implement agricultural input subsidies as a tool to boost agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely spread and represents a large part of the agricultural budget, little emphasis has been placed...

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