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Economic, Social, and Environmental Benefits Associated With U.S. Organic Agriculture [PDF]
, 2005 This case study reviews the economic, social, and environmental benefits associated with organic agriculture in the United States. Measurable impacts are quantified by comparing indicators of benefits in counties with organic farms and counties without ...
Lohr, Luanne
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, 2018 This paper discusses the techno-economic assessment of hydrogen production from biogas with conventional systems. The work is part of the European project BIONICO, whose purpose is to develop and test a membrane reactor (MR) for hydrogen production from ...
G. D. Marcoberardino +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 The debate on the relative benefits of conventional and organic farming systems has in recent time gained significant interest. So far, global agricultural development has focused on increased productivity rather than on a holistic natural resource ...
D. Forster +5 more
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Organic dairy farming in Norway under the 100% organically produced feed requirement [PDF]
, 2005 The EU regulation governing organic production will require 100% organic feed in organic dairy systems from August 2005 compared with 85% currently in Norway.
G., Lien, O., Flaten
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Financial and economic analyses of conventional and new technology harvesting systems [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examine the various committed new technology and improve logging activities ascribed in the 'Logfisher' Practice (LP) rather than Conventional Practice (CP).
Abdul Samad, Abdul Rahim +1 more
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Risk and economic sustainability of crop farming systems [PDF]
, 2006 Environmental, social and economic attributes are important for the sustainability of a farming system. Comparing farming systems by considering only expected profitability ignores differences in both sustainability and in the riskiness of system returns.
Flaten, Dr. Ola +2 more
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Site-specific organic and conventional crop yields in a long-term farming systems comparison in sub-humid central Kenya [PDF]
, 2010 Organic farming is increasingly being taken up by farmers and agricultural development agencies in tropics. This is in a bid to improve world food security and rural livelihoods in a sustainable way.
Chabi-Olaye, Adenirin +5 more
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Sustainability, 2019 This paper presents a techno-economic feasibility evaluation for a grid-connected photovoltaic energy conversion system on the rooftop of a typical residential building in Jeddah, one of the major cities in Saudi Arabia.
Amir A. Imam +2 more
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Comparative analysis of conventional and organic farming systems: Nitrogen surpluses and nitrogen losses [PDF]
, 2008 Nutrient management is a key factor for both economic viability and environmental performance of farming systems. On 32 representative conventional and organic farms in Northern Germany, nutrient management was analyzed in the interdisciplinary ...
Kelm, Dr. Michael +2 more
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The crisis, conventional economic wisdom, and public policy
, 2010 This contribution, based on the presentation at the inaugural conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (Cambridge, April 2010), first, discusses the core building blocks of a conventional policy wisdom grounded in almost caricatural ...
A. Turner
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