Economic Evaluation of Health Cost of Pesticide Use: Willingness to Pay Method [PDF]
This study highlights the results of contingent valuation method to measure health cost of pesticide use from farmer’s point of view. Analysis shows that farmers have a positive willingness to pay for avoiding pesticide related health risks.
Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Khan
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Aggregate Measures of Income and Output in Canada and the United States: Implications for Productivity and Living Standards [PDF]
The objectives of this article are to clarify definitions and to produce estimates of the eight aggregate measures of income and product (gross domestic product, gross domestic income, gross national product, gross national income, net domestic product ...
Alexander Murray, Chris Ross
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Role of fish in enhancing ricefield ecology and in integrated pest management: summary report [PDF]
Summary report of the Third Asian Regional Rice-Fish Farming Research and Development Workshop, Indonesia, 1993. Includes sessions on ricefield ecology and fish; integrated pest management (IPM); research methodology; and IPM adoption.Rice-fish ...
dela Cruz, C.R. (ed.)
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Multi-Institutional Implementation of Farmer Field Schools among Nicaraguan Bean Growers. Do Different NGOs Perform Differently? [PDF]
This paper analyzes how different characteristics of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working as extension providers affect the delivery of agricultural technologies to farmers. Using farm level data from 436 Nicaraguan bean growers, we evaluate how
Labarta, Ricardo A., Swinton, Scott M.
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Bridging Canadian Technology SMEs Over the Valley of Death [PDF]
This comment analyses the Panel report and finds that its main diagnosis is correct: Canada's BERD is low. The Panel report is fairly silent about the necessary improvements to Canada's innovation system.
Jorge Niosi
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Culture media affects accuracy of prediction of metallo-β-lactamases mediated resistance to imipenem. [PDF]
PLoS OneChen K +7 more
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Comparative Study on the In Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion of Oil Body Suspension from Different Parts of Idesia polycarpa Maxim. [PDF]
GelsCheng S +7 more
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Innovation and Productivity: Summary Results for Canadian Manufacturing Establishments [PDF]
Lagging innovation performance is seen as a key factor explaining weak productivity growth in Canada. This article uses data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation 2005 and the Annual Survey of Manufactures and Logging (ASML) to estimate an econometric ...
Petr Hanel, Pierre Therrien
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The expansion of culturable opportunistic pathogens and antibiotic resistance in mouse gut following antibiotic exposure. [PDF]
Microbiol SpectrWang B +10 more
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Consumer Response to Integrated Pest Management and Organic Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis [PDF]
While several studies have presented aggregate, descriptive illustrations of consumer response to IPM, the willingness-to-purchase and willingness-to-pay for IPM produce as a function of demographic characteristics has not received the exhaustive ...
Govindasamy, Ramu, Italia, John
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