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Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis climática y dependencia a la exportación de 'commodities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Los países dependientes de la exportación de commodities (materias primas o productos básicos), entre estos ...
Gonzalez-Perez, Maria Alejandra
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Scenario-Based Financial Planning in Gold Mining Under Commodity Price Uncertainty

open access: yesCommodities
Gold mining firms operate in an environment characterized by substantial commodity price volatility, capital intensity, and long investment horizons. Traditional deterministic financial planning frameworks are insufficient to capture the nonlinear and ...
Lemonia Choupi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Index Investment and Financialization of Commodities [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper finds that, concurrent with the rapid growing index investment in commodities markets since early 2000s, futures prices of different commodities in the US became increasingly correlated with each other and this trend was significantly more ...
Wei Xiong, Ke Tang
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
wiley   +1 more source

Commodities: an asset class in their own right? [PDF]

open access: yes
Investor interest in commodities has risen in recent years in line with the spectacular surge in most commodity prices. Some institutional investors, for instance Dutch or Californian pension funds, have confirmed that they have gained or intend to gain ...
Marchal-Dombrat, C., Mongars, P.
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Commodities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter provides background information about commodities. The first section provides an introduction consisting of a discussion of benefits and risk and commodity investment strategies.
Greg Filbeck   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Commodity Research: A Multi-Dimensional Bibliometric Analysis

open access: yesCommodities
This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis conducted in R Studio of the scientific landscape regarding commodity markets, trading strategies, sustainable production, integration of technologies such as machine learning, and their economic ...
Ionuț Nica, Nora Chiriță
doaj   +1 more source

Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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