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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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Do baseline requirements hinder trades in water quality trading programs? [PDF]
The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are promoting point/nonpoint trading as a way of reducing the costs of meeting water quality goals while giving nonpoint sources a larger role in meeting those goals.
Ghosh, Gaurav S. +2 more
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A Workforce Development Triad: Federal Education Tax Credits, Community-Based Organizations, and Community Colleges [PDF]
, 2006 Through a literature review of partnerships between community colleges and community-based organizations, looks at how education tax credits can be leveraged as a workforce development tool.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Early Emissions Reduction Programs: An Application to CO2 Policy [PDF]
In the wake of the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which, if implemented, would oblige the United States and other industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) by 2008–2012, a number of proposals have been offered to increase the incentives ...
Parry, Ian, Toman, Michael
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Tax credits for historic rehabilitation [PDF]
Saving historic buildings preserves New England’s character while providing opportunities for affordable housing and economic development. The authors describe how to use federal historic tax credits as well as New England’s state-level historic tax ...
John Leith-Tetrault, Kennedy Smith
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