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Land Cover Change in Mixed Agroforestry: Shade Coffee in El Salvador [PDF]
Little is known about land cover change in mixed agroforestry systems, which often supply valuable ecological services. We use a spatial regression model to analyze clearing in El Salvador’s shade coffee–growing regions during the 1990s.
Blackman, Allen +2 more
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The Role of Cooperatives in Promoting Climate‐Smart Agriculture: Panel Evidence From Ethiopia
Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change threatens the livelihood of millions of smallholder farmers in Sub‐Saharan Africa and elsewhere. This paper investigates whether cooperatives could promote climate‐smart agriculture among their members and, through spillover effects on nonmembers in their villages, among their communities at large. For this purpose, we use panel
Goytom Abraha Kahsay +1 more
wiley +1 more source
Strategies for simulating the transition to agroforestry in Quebec, Canada [PDF]
, 2018 N/
Olivier, A.
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We compare the impact of two extension modalities on knowledge accumulation and willingness to pay for a weather index insurance product among smallholder farmers in Kenya. One approach to extension is based on experiential learning and involves participation in an incentivized framed experiment (or game).
Jamleck Osiemo +3 more
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Breaking the Barriers for Women Participation in Agroforestry in the Context of AfCFTA
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesAgroforestry, an integrated land management practice combining agriculture, forestry, and natural resource conservation, holds significant potential for sustainable development and economic growth in Africa.
Patrick Opoku +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Agroforestry and the environment in the future european CAP [PDF]
, 2018 N/
Mosquera-Losada, M.R.
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Farmer behavior toward herbicide‐free agriculture and conservation tillage
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Balancing conflicting policy goals is a key challenge in the transition to sustainable agricultural systems. An important example is herbicide use reduction potentially conflicting with conservation tillage—which often strongly relies on herbicide use.
Viviana Garcia +3 more
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Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract DeKalb County, Georgia has been mired in a struggle to defend its forest against the development of a militarised police training facility known as “Cop City”. Drawing on autoethnographic research as a criminalised forest defender and the Stop Cop City movement's social history, I show how forest defenders created abolitionist possibilities ...
Hannah Kass
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A social network analysis of the European science–policy–society interface on biodiversity
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the wealth of evidence on biodiversity status, trends, and policy options in Europe, knowledge often fails to inform policy makers and decision makers effectively. Implementing the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 will require the transformation of engagement and exchange between knowledge providers and policy and decision makers ...
Dalia D'Amato +12 more
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