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Interdependences between Smallholder Farming and Environmental Management in Rural Malawi: A Case of Agriculture-Induced Environmental Degradation in Malingunde <em><i>Extension Pl...

Munthali, Kondwani G.; Murayama, Yuji - In: Land 2 (2013) 2, pp. 158-175

wood stocks in the area. An improvement in the quality and quantity of the smallholder agriculture sector production would …

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Gendered Resource Access and Utilisation in Swedish Family Farming

Andersson, Elias; Lidestav, Gun - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 188-203

’s engagement with agriculture using a Swedish case study, based on descriptive analyses of data from the Federation of Swedish …

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Transnational Comparison of Sustainability Assessment Programs for Viticulture and a Case-Study on Programs’ Engagement Processes

Santiago-Brown, Irina; Metcalfe, Andrew; Jerram, Cate; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 4, pp. 2031-2066

This article documents and compares the most prominent sustainability assessment programs for individual organisations in viticulture worldwide. Certification and engagement processes for membership uptake; benefits; motives; inhibiting factors; and desirable reporting system features of...

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Managing Soil Erosion in Northern Ireland: A Review of Past and Present Approaches

Mullan, Donal - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 4, pp. 684-699

In recent decades, the off-site transport of sediment and nutrients from agricultural land into the neighbouring natural and built environment has become a more pressing environmental sustainability issue than the on-site threats of soil erosion in many of the world’s temperate regions. In the...

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Energy Analysis of the Danish Food Production System: Food-EROI and Fossil Fuel Dependency

Markussen, Mads V.; Østergård, Hanne - In: Energies 6 (2013) 8, pp. 4170-4186

Modern food production depends on limited natural resources for providing energy and fertilisers. We assess the fossil fuel dependency for the Danish food production system by means of Food Energy Returned on fossil Energy Invested (Food-EROI) and by the use of energy intensive nutrients from...

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Diesel Consumption of Agriculture in China

Li, Nan; Mu, Hailin; Li, Huanan; Gui, Shusen - In: Energies 5 (2012) 12, pp. 5126-5149

As agricultural mechanization accelerates the development of agriculture in China, to control the growth of the … resulting energy consumption of mechanized agriculture without negatively affecting economic development has become a major … total diesel consumption in agriculture in 2010. Technological progress has led to a decrease in the unit diesel consumption …

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Innovation and IPRs in the Agricultural Seed Sector.

Eaton, Derek - Center for International Environmental Studies, The … - 2013

The trade-offs involved in the extent of appropriability conferred by intellectual property right (IPR) protection to innovators remains an area with many unanswered questions. This paper considers the case of IPRs for product innovations where the product is an intermediate good used to produce...

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Trade and Intellectual Property Rights in the Agricultural Seed Sector

Eaton, Derek - Center for International Environmental Studies, The … - 2013

The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) has continued to be fiercely debated between North and South, par- ticularly with respect to its provisions for the agricultural sector. Article 27.3(b) of the TRIPS Agreement requires WTO member countries to offer...

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DOHA ROUND OF WTO NEGOTIATIONS AND THE DOMESTIC SUPPORT FOR AGRICULTURE IN SERBIA

Popović, Vesna; Katić, Branko - In: Economic Annals 52 (2007) 172, pp. 93-114

agriculture (market approach and internal support). It is expected that Doha round of WTO negotiations should result with a … support to agriculture. …

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DOHA ROUND OF WTO NEGOTIATIONS AND TRADE LIBERALISATION IN SERBIAN AGRICULTURE

Popović, Vesna; Katić, Branko; Cvetković, Ružica - In: Economic Annals 53 (2008) 176, pp. 61-87

agreement in agriculture. This sector is very sensitive in market access for biotechnological, economical and social reasons …

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