Practices, management, and typology of dromedary livestock systems and health constraints in southwestern Tunisia: The case of the Gafsa region. [PDF]
Sadraoui R +3 more
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
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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Housing Affordability as a Social Determinant of Mental Health: Longitudinal Evidence from China. [PDF]
Chen Y, Wu C, Ye J.
europepmc +1 more source
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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Analysis of cultivated land changes and driving factors in the Alar Reclamation Area (1990-2019) based on multi-temporal Landsat data and machine learning algorithms. [PDF]
Song Q, Zhang W.
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ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe. [PDF]
Spencer D +10 more
europepmc +1 more source
Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Rooted in culture, constrained by means: exploring crops and associated motivations among Masikoro and Antandroy farmers in Southwestern Madagascar. [PDF]
Menguy E +6 more
europepmc +1 more source
Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
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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