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Conservation in Kansas

open access: yes, 2008
Report covers Fiscal Year 2007 and 2008, with planned activities listed for Fiscal Year 2009.<br>Continues title: Soil conservation in Kansas which previously was continued by: Conservation in ...
Kansas. State Conservation Commission
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The implications of stakeholders' perceptions of land for sustainable land use management in NE Ghana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
There are negative implications of changes in stakeholders traditional land perceptions for sustainable land use and management in north-east Ghana.
Bugri, John   +2 more
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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Investments in Land Conservation in the Ethiopian Highlands: A Household Plot-Level Analysis of the Roles of Poverty, Tenure Security, and Market Inventives [PDF]

open access: yes
Land degradation is a major problem undermining land productivity in the highlands of Ethiopia. This study explores the factors that affect farm households’ decisions at the plot level to invest in land conservation and how much to invest, focusing on ...
Mekonnen, Alemu, Bekele, Genanew
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Assessing the Fates of Water and Nitrogen on an Open-Field Intensive Vegetable System under an Expert-N System with EU-Rotate_N Model in North China Plain

open access: yesPlants
Nitrate leaching, greenhouse gas emissions, and water loss are caused by conventional water and fertilizer management in vegetable fields. The Expert-N system is a useful tool for recommending the optimal nitrogen (N) fertilizer for vegetable cultivation.
Yuan Sun   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lost ground, lost value: Investigating the relationship between soil erosion and agricultural land value

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Constraints on Private Conservation of Biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper finds that private sector, which can play an important role in the conservation of biodiversity, is being constrained from doing so by a range of institutional factors.
Productivity Commission
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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

Friends of the Land dinner invitation

open access: yes, 1940
Dinner invitation to the annual Dinner Meeting of the Friends of the Land, held in Mansfield, Ohio, on September 13, 1957. It includes a menu and agenda for speakers -- including Dr. Jonathan Forman, President of The Friends of the land, on the future of
Friends of the Land (1940-1959)
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