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Drought losses to local economy
, 2017 Drought is one of the most complex natural phenomena, with severe socioeconomic impacts, both, in the short and the long term. The primary or immediate impacts of drought are most felt in agricultural and related sectors due to the inherent reliance of ...
Rahman, Ataur (R9573) +3 more
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Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto +2 more
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The Unizulu Department of Music Presents a Drought Relief Jazz Concert by the Darius Brubeck Quartet [PDF]
, 1983 The advertisement promotes a jazz concert whereby the Darius Brubeck Quartet with Barney Rachabane, Nelson Magwaza & Marc Duby will perform for the purpose of raising money for the Zululand Drought Relief ...
University of Zululand
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Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity
, 2017 Drought is a slow-onset natural hazard recurring regionally, which is often considered as a creeping phenomenon. Drought is characterized by an accumulated departure of precipitation from the normal or expected, which may occur over a short period of ...
Dalezios N.R., Tarquis Alfonso A.M., Eslamian S. +5 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A distributed wireless sensing framework enables noninvasive monitoring of plant salinity stress through leaf reflectance measurements acquired with portable optical sensors. The collected data are processed using TinyML‐based neural network models deployed at the edge, enabling accurate, real‐time, and low‐cost classification of salinity levels, while
Ali Ahmad +4 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt +6 more
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Preparing for Drought in the 21st Century
, 2000 This document constitutes the report of the National Drought Policy Commission. The report presents the basis for national drought policy and calls for commitment and resolve in providing sufficient resources to achieve the policy ...
United States National Drought Policy Commission
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen +3 more
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Ex-Ante Analysis of the Benefits of Transgenic Drought Tolerance Research on Cereal Crops in Low-Income Countries [PDF]
This paper examines the ex-ante benefits of transgenic research on drought in eight developing countries, including the potential magnitude of private sector profits.
Wood, Stanley +3 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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