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Prospects and constraints in smallholder farmers' adoption of multiple soil carbon enhancing practices in Western Kenya

Heliyon, 2020
Most smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are adversely affected by low soil fertility, land degradation and climate change-related shocks such as drought. These problems lead to low productivity and low household income.
George Magambo Kanyenji, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Cecilia Moraa Onyango, Stanley Karanja Ng'ang'a   +3 more
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Forest economics within the activities of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Journal of Forest Science, 2022
Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) is a professional and social institution whose basic mission is to influence the scientific level of research activities and education in its field of competence, to take care of its continuous development ...
Petra Palátová, Václav Kupčák
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THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS [PDF]

Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists
The article presents the theoretical foundations of agricultural economics, with a focus on economic issues in the strategic sector that ensures national food security.
Michał Kruszyński, Katarzyna Dostaw
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Ethics and Agriculture: A Teaching Perspective

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2008
Ethics and agriculture is a complex debate, but one in which agricultural economics students must be prepared to participate. There are many links between economics and ethic or moral philosophy.
Penelope L. Diebel
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Exploring the Topics of Soil Pollution and Agricultural Economics: Highlighting Good Practices

, 2020
The evolution of the agricultural sector around the world has generated positive and negative externalities at social, economic and environmental levels.
V. Martinho
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Is There a Cult of Statistical Significance in Agricultural Economics?

, 2020
In an analysis of articles published in ten years of the American Economic Review, Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak have shown that economists often fail to adequately distinguish economic and statistical significance.
Jens Rommel, Meike Weltin
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The p-Value Debate and Statistical (Mal)practice – Implications for the Agricultural and Food Economics Community

German Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023
A vivid debate is ongoing in the scientific community about statistical malpractice and the related publication bias. No general consensus exists on the consequences and this is reflected in heterogeneous rules defined by scientific journals on the use ...
T. Heckelei, S. Hüttel, M. Odening, Jens Rommel   +3 more
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Agricultural and Applied Economics: What is This?

Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2012
The scientific domain of «agricultural and applied economics» is an open issue. In this paper, we analyse the JEL codes of the articles published in seven major agricultural economics journals in the period 2000-11, in order to define which disciplines ...
Paolo Sckokai
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Economic Growth, Convergence and Agricultural Economics

Agricultural Economics, 2019
After nearly two centuries of lagging behind the industrial countries, growth in many developing countries has surged since the early 1990s. This outperformance has major implications for almost all areas of agricultural economics and, if continued, will
W. Martin
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The Role of the Maghreb Governments in Creating Irrigation networks and Agricultural development in the Middle Ages [PDF]

تحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایران, 2023
This article, ­­ provides a historical­ study of the position and role of medieval Maghreb governments in establishing and controlling irrigation systems in the agricultural economy.
Abbas Boroumand A'lam
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