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

open access: yesAmerican 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAmerican 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source
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Fertilization

ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Computer Animation Festival, 2012
Fertilization-the fusion of gametes to produce a new organism-is the culmination of a multitude of intricately regulated cellular processes. In Caenorhabditis elegans, fertilization is highly efficient. Sperm become fertilization competent after undergoing a maturation process during which they become motile, and the plasma membrane protein composition
Matthew R, Marcello   +2 more
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Early Fertility and Lifetime Fertility

Family Planning Perspectives, 1980
Teenage mothers are likely to have more children than those who postpone childbearing, but these differences are not as great as they used to be. There is also a pattern of convergence between black women and white women.
S R, Millman, G E, Hendershot
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Fertility desires and fertility outcomes

Journal of the Australian Population Association, 1991
Over the last 30 years Australian fertility rates have fallen more than could have been predicted from changes in the numbers of children desired by women when they first married. This paper charts changes in desired and completed fertility in Australia, matches originally desired fertility with that ultimately achieved and explores some factors which ...
M, Bracher, G, Santow
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Cryptorchidism and Fertility

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America, 2015
Congenital cryptorchidism, that is, undescended testis, is one of the most common urogenital abnormalities observed in newborn boys. In addition to the congenital form, there is also acquired form of cryptorchidism. Fertility potential of patients with cryptorchidism has been evaluated by testicular histology and volume, semen quality, reproductive ...
Virtanen, HE, Toppari, J
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Fertilizers

2011
Mineral fertilizers have played a pivotal role in the success of the agricultural production systems. Continued exponential growth in human population and increasing demand for biofuels point to ever-increasing demand for fertilizers. Despite the apparent success of the current agricultural production systems, overuse of fertilizers has caused severe ...
MORARI, FRANCESCO, VELLIDIS G, PAIGE G.
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