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Sociology's Potential to Improve Forest Management and Inform Forest Policy [PDF]
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Beckley, Thomas M., Korber, Dianne
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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The National Forest Programme of the Czech Republic: An introduction of the 1993–2010 development
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2011 Since the 1992 UNCED Conference in Rio de Janeiro, National Forest Programmes (NFPs) have been attracting a worldwide attention as a voluntary participatory-based policy instrument to support the sustainable forest management at the country level.
Marta Urbanová
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A Whole-of-Government Approach to Reducing Tropical Deforestation [PDF]
Tropical forests provide critical global and local ecosystem services and habitat for many of the world’s plants and animals. Their loss threatens the sustainable economic growth and social stability of developing countries, and illegal deforestation ...
Morris, Daniel +2 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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La gouvernance participative des forêts publiques : L’Ontario et le Québec, des chemins parallèles ?
Territoire en Mouvement, 2011 Canadian provincial’s forest policies reflect the transition dynamic from a hierarchical governance to a "multilevel governance" (Pülzl and Rametsteiner, 2002), meaning that they open spaces to new actors.
Guy Chiasson +2 more
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MEASURING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TECHNICAL PROGRESS IN LOW-INCOME AGRICULTURE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT AND FOREST PRESSURE IN PALAWAN, THE PHILIPPINES [PDF]
Data from the Philippines are used to measure impacts of technical progress in lowland agriculture on upland forests. Irrigation development, labor demand, and employment are studied. Total annual labor use increased following irrigation.
Shively, Gerald E.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
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Trees, Forests and PeopleWater-related ecosystem services of forest land are essential for human well-being. Their provision is related to forest management practices that forest owners and managers apply. When these preferential management practices increase the operating costs,
Klára Báliková +5 more
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e-cadernos ces, 2017 Due to deforestation, there is a growing trend in India, that the Government has started planting eucalyptus and other varieties of trees under the afforestaion programme for their commercial value. This has caused the disappearance of traditional forest
Buddhadeb Chaudhuri, Chandreyee Roy
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