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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsHigh-standard farmland construction (HSFC) plays a vital role in mitigating agricultural natural risks, lessening agricultural disasters, and safeguarding food security. China’s 2011-launched HSFC policy creates an ideal quasi-natural experiment.
Zeng Wei +7 more
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang +2 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis study rigorously assesses the influence of China’s high-standard farmland construction policy on fertilizer use efficiency by utilizing a continuous difference-in-difference model. The analysis, covering 30 provinces, reveals a persistently low, yet
Feng Ye +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsHigh-standard farmland construction (HSFC) is a critical initiative for mitigating climate disaster risks of grain production and ensuring national food security.
Xiushuang Li, Xiaohui Zhang
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Research on Index System Construction of High-standard Basic Farmland [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Education, Social Science, Management and Sports (ICESSMS 2016), 2017 Xuefeng Zhang +3 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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A Feature-Enhanced and Edge-Refined Network for Cropland Parcel Extraction from Sentinel-2 Imagery
AgricultureAccurate identification of arable land, as the foundation of the high-standard farmland construction, impacts the crop layout, accurate management of water and fertilizers, and intelligent control.
Beibei Gao, Liejun Wang, Jinkai Qiu
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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LandChina faces the dual challenges of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring food security. Given that crop cultivation constitutes a major source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, analyzing the emission reduction impact of China’s high ...
Ying Wang +3 more
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