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Würdigungs-Netzwerk, gewolltes Nichtwissen und Geschichtsschreibung

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2012
The article deals with the tradition of a special academic field, agricultural economics and policies during the 20th century. Agricultural economics had become a prominent field of science during the Naziperiod in Germany. Persisting networks after 1945
Katrin Hirte
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The Role of Social Food Infrastructure in Addressing SNAP Participation Gaps: Evidence From Linked Administrative and Ground‐Sourced Data

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We link American Community Survey and SNAP records for 185,000 units with ground‐sourced social food infrastructure data from FindFoodIL (Illinois Extension SNAP‐Ed) to examine SNAP participation determinants among eligible units. Bivariate probit models reveal, beyond SNAP offices, quantity of social infrastructure is associated with ...
Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao, Caitlin Kownacki, Jennifer McCaffrey, Craig Wesley Carpenter   +3 more
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Assessing influence in biofuel production and ecosystem services when environmental changes affect plant–pest relationships

GCB Bioenergy, 2020
Climate change is currently affecting both biodiversity and human activities; land use change and greenhouse gas emissions are the main drivers. Many agricultural services are affected by the change, which in turn reflects on the basic provisioning ...
Walter De Simone, Mattia Iannella, Paola D’Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi   +3 more
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang, Anna Kristina Edenbrandt, Elin Röös   +2 more
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Farmers’ Perceptions of Agricultural Land Abandonment in Rural Western New York State

Land, 2018
Over the last century, the U.S. economy has favored large-scale agribusiness over small-scale farming. In some regions, this trend has led to the abandonment of cultivated land, and there is little scholarly literature that discusses how farmers are ...
Kara A. Kuntz, Frederic Beaudry, Karen L. Porter   +2 more
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Consumer Health Perceptions of Cows' Milk and Plant‐Based Milk Alternatives

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study used a best‐worst scale experiment to reveal consumers' beliefs about the healthiness of selected cows' milk and plant‐based milk products based on their nutrition panels. We find that while there is heterogeneity in health perceptions, consumers overwhelmingly select skim milk as the healthiest milk product. Additionally, the cows'
Danielle M. Kaminski, Wei Yang, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
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Professionalisation of Australian Agricultural Economics: 1920 - 1970 [PDF]

Australian agricultural economics was on the verge of professional recognition at the beginning of the 1950s. The discipline had emerged from the Second World War in a strong position due primarily to the work of the State Departments of Agriculture, the
Myers, Laurel
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
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Influence of Course Delivery Method and Proctoring on Performance in Introductory Economics [PDF]

This work was published in the Review of Agricultural Economics. See Wachenheim, C.J. 2009. Final Exam Scores in Introductory Economics Courses: Effect of Course Delivery Method and Proctoring. Review of Agricultural Economics 31(3), pp.
Wachenheim, Cheryl J.
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
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