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The effect of result‐based agri‐environmental payments on biodiversity: Evidence from Switzerland

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We estimate the effects of result‐based agri‐environmental payments on biodiversity using a unique dataset containing information about plant vegetation. The data include information on surveyed plant species for a large number of randomly selected plots followed over a period of 20 years in Switzerland.
Sergei Schaub, Tobias Roth, Petyo Bonev
wiley   +1 more source

Confidence and information usage: Evidence from soil testing in India 

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Informational barriers are often considered to be a major constraint to the adoption of improved farming practices, inputs, and technologies by smallholder farmers. In the Indian context, it is widely believed that farmers misapply chemical fertilizers because they lack scientific information on soil conditions and corresponding fertilizer ...
Jared Gars   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity–food trade‐offs when agricultural land is spared from production

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes, the world's predominant land use, could involve sparing, or setting aside, agricultural land from production, implying biodiversity–food trade‐offs. Employing bird species and agricultural data in two panel data sets, we evaluate the extent of set‐aside's trade‐offs in England between 1992 ...
Charles Palmer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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