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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Conservation Science and PracticePublic lands across the United States are managed for multiple uses, resources, and values ranging from energy development to rare plant conservation. Intensified energy development and other land use changes across the Southwestern United States have ...
Catherine S. Jarnevich +7 more
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New insights into the phylogenetics and population structure of the prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus)
BMC Genomics, 2018 Background Management requires a robust understanding of between- and within-species genetic variability, however such data are still lacking in many species.
Jacqueline M. Doyle +10 more
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background to historic and prehistoric resources of the east mojave desert region [PDF]
, 1981 historic and prehistoric resources of the east mojave desert ...
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
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Temperature Sensitivity and Adaptation of Cereal Yields: Empirical Evidence From Italy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the evolving temperature sensitivity and climate adaptation of cereal yields in Italy from 1952 to 2023, using province‐level data for maize, common wheat, and durum wheat. Employing panel data econometric methods, we estimate yield responses to heat exposure, changes in sensitivity over time, and adaptation to climate ...
Paolo Nota +2 more
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Where you stand depends on where you sit: qualitative inquiry into notions of fire adaptation
Ecology and Society, 2017 Wildfire and the threat it poses to society represents an example of the complex, dynamic relationship between social and ecological systems. Increasingly, wildfire adaptation is posited as a pathway to shift the approach to fire from a suppression ...
Hannah Brenkert-Smith +3 more
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Value of Returns to Land and Water and Costs of Degradation Vol 1 of 2 [PDF]
Volume 1 (Main Report), Consultancy report for the National Land and Water Resources Audit, Theme 6.1. This report presents new datasets developed through the National Land and Water Resources Audit that relate to economic aspects of natural resource ...
Mike Young (Ed), Stefan Hajkowicz (Ed)
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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 +2 more
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Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, 2015 Reservoir and lake sedimentation is a vital problem in Ethiopia. Constructing small and medium size dams at the outlets of sub-catchments within larger catchment helps to reduce the transport of sediment downstream to reservoirs or lakes.
M. Mekonnen +4 more
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Rangeland Inventory and Monitoring: Supplemental Studies. [PDF]
, 1992 A technical reference document containing the rangeland inventory and monitoring techniques historically used in the Bureau of Land Management since formation of the Grazing ...
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
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