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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investment Risk Assessment: Vertical Farming for Commodity Crops - Energy Physics, Biosecurity Failures, and Protected Niche Analysis

Finks, Christopher
openalex   +2 more sources

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

'All walks of life':a profile of household insurance fraudsters in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2016
Blackbourn, Dean, Button, Mark, Pakes, Francis   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cumulative Exposure Assessment of Triazole Pesticides [PDF]

In the EFSA opinion on identification of new approaches to assess cumulative and synergistic risks from pesticides to human health a tiered approach for cumulative risk assessment has been proposed.
Boon, P.E., Donkersgoed, G., van, Klaveren, J.D., van, Stephenson, C., Voet, H., van der   +4 more
core  

Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Public and Private Law Tools for Halting Deforestation [PDF]

, 2020
Resnick, Harriette I.
core   +2 more sources

Agricultural markets and risks - management of the latter, not the former [PDF]

The authors review the historical relationship between the work of applied economists, and policymakers, and the institutions that came to characterize the commodity, and risk markets of the 1980s.
Anderson, Jack R., Larson, Donald, Varangis, Panos   +2 more
core  

Commodity risk assessment of <i>Robinia pseudoacacia</i> plants from the United Kingdom. [PDF]

EFSA J
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Civera AV, Baptista P, Berlin A, Chatzivassiliou E, Cubero J, Cunniffe N, de la Peña E, Desneux N, Di Serio F, Filipiak A, Gonthier P, Hasiów-Jaroszewska B, Jactel H, Landa BB, Maistrello L, Makowski D, Milonas P, Papadopoulos NT, Susi H, van der Gaag DJ, Debode J, Navas-Cortes JA, Kritikos C, Kormpi M, Papachristos D, Reppa C, Akrivou A, Antonatos S, Beris D, Schulz OM, Lombardo MF, Gardi C, Potting R.   +33 more
europepmc   +1 more source