Land use as it relates to land slope
, 2010 The goal of this project is to analyze the relationship between the slope of land and agricultural land use. The output was analyzed to determine a threshold point at which agriculture practices drop off in relation to higher slope values. Slope of the land is important to agricultural practices because it impacts drainage and net crop primary ...
Plourde, James D, Pijanowski, Bryan C
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Production Incentives from Static Decoupling: Entry, Exit and Use Exclusion Restrictions [PDF]
The use of agricultural decoupled support has increased as World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations implement less trade distortive policies. However, the true production effects of these policies are still unclear.
Just, David R., Kropp, Jaclyn D.
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Conservation and sustainable use of wildlife based resources through the frmawork of the convention on biological (CBD): The bushmeat crisis [PDF]
, 2008 This articlepresents a number of policy recommendations to improve the sustainability of wildlife-based resources use in tropical forests, including by strengthening national ownership of this issue in a way that provides long-term local and national ...
Christophersen, Tim, Nasi, Robert
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Short term effects of moderate carbon prices on land use in the New Zealand emissions trading system: LURNZ-climate land use change simulations [PDF]
The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) was introduced through the Climate Change Response Act in September 2008 and remains in force. The forestry sector has been directly affected by the NZ ETS since 1 January 2008 and stationary energy ...
Kerr, Suzi, Power, William, Zhang, Wei
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Bringing together perspectives from the fields of religious studies, history, philosophy, history of law, economics, and sociology, this volume analyzes practices of relating to landed property in Europe and North America as a means of both centering and destabilizing property claims.
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LAND AND POPULATION ON THE INDIAN RESERVATION OF WISCONSIN: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE [PDF]
The historical relationship between land use and population change among Wisconsin's Indian groups has been strikingly emblematic of the larger American Indian population.
Ceballos, Miguel +2 more
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Agricultural Land Market Transactions in Chhattisgarh : A Case Study [PDF]
In the newly born state of Chhattisgarh a large number of land buyers have become actively engaged in the villages located along the national highway and at the periphery of Raipur city, the capital of Chhattisgarh to purchase prime agricultural land. In
Marothia, Dinesh K., Patil, K.M.
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Becoming local citizens: Senegalese migrants and agrarian clientelism in the Gambia [PDF]
, 2012 Drawing on ethnographic research with Senegalese female migrants in Brikama, The Gambia this article examines local citizenship and agrarian clientelism.
Kea, Pamela
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QUANTIFYING THE HETEROGENEITY OF ABATEMENT COSTS UNDER CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION CHANGES: AN INTEGRATED MODELLING APPROACH [PDF]
We present here preliminary results of an integrated modelling approach combining a crop model (STICS) and an economic model (AROPAj) of European agricultural supply.
de Noblet-Ducoudre, Nathalie +3 more
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Twenty years later: migration, inter-ethnic relations and land rights in new settlements in Burkina Faso and Nigeria [PDF]
, 2006 The paper presents two case studies from Nigeria and Burkina Faso, that differ in many respects, but show also some significant similarities. In both cases, previously existing claims on land were not recognised by the national authorities who ...
Kirscht, Holger, Werthmann, Katja
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