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Pig farming is one of the strongest polluters of water resources due to its intensive production techniques and slurry rejection. Several European countries have already introduced environmental regulations aiming at reducing the pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources, but not...
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In this paper the effect of manure production rights on investment decisions of Dutch pig farmers is examined. A dynamic optimization model of investment that explicitly takes zero investments into account is augmented by a constraint on production arising from the introduction of manure...
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A study based on the literature, an on- farm audit and expert knowledge, was carried out to determine 1) the risks of spread of animal diseases among farms; 2) odour nuisance due to carcasses at the rendering plant; and 3) measurements to reduce these risks. It was concluded that the possible...
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Economic instruments, such as levies are considered by the Dutch government for reducing the harmful effects of the production and application of manure. To analyse these levies a framework which makes it possible to combine and to choose among different types of research is developed. The...
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discontinued. No new arrangements for cooperation in production and marketing was introduced to take its place, however … Community – led to the conclusion that cooperation between the producers is the only way to promote their interests, to improve …
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. Simultaneously, individuals adapt their behavior, leading to an intricate interplay been network evolution and behavior evolution … increase of cooperation, which is here extended to all two-player social dilemmas. In addition, we discuss the role of the …
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together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … collaboration in a dynamic network setting. We develop an experiment in which coordination problems are mainly due to finding … partners for collaboration, while cooperation problems arise at the investment levels of partners who have already agreed to …
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Cooperation is widely recognized to be fundamental for the well-balanced development of human societies. Several … different approaches have been proposed to explain the emergence of cooperation in populations of individuals playing the … cooperation for these classes of games. We find the conditions for which these Nash equilibria are asymptotically stable, and we …
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