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An Examination of Growing Trends in Land Tenure and Conservation Practice Adoption: Results from a Farmer Survey in Iowa. [PDF]

Environ Manage, 2016
Varble S, Secchi S, Druschke CG.
europepmc   +1 more source

Environmental Total Factor Productivity and the Cost‐Effectiveness of GHG Emission Reduction: The Case of Crop Production in China

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's diversified agricultural policies have effectively improved both the yield and environmental performance of the crop sector. Quantifying productivity trends and their drivers is key to formulating strategies for high‐quality and low‐carbon crop development.
Yang Liu, Maria Vrachioli, Johannes Sauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Slow Progress Under Brazil's Native Vegetation Protection Law in the Southeastern Amazon. [PDF]

Environ Manage
Almada HK, Cavalcante RBL, Walfir Souza-Filho PM, Nascimento W, Nunes S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Misalignment in Carbon Credit Programmes: Insights From Producer Preferences for Cover Crop and No‐Till Contracts

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the factors influencing producer adoption of cover cropping and no‐till farming, two key carbon sequestration practices, within the context of voluntary carbon credit programmes (CCPs) in Kansas. Using a mixed‐methods survey that combines discrete choice experiments with farm‐level data from 370 producers, we estimate ...
Grant Edward Gardner, Gabriel S. Sampson, Shuoli Zhao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Lineage Property to Individual Property: Dynamics of Land Management in the Villages of Nasso and Dindéresso, Hauts-Bassins, Burkina Faso. [PDF]

Open Res Afr
Sawadogo A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gender Empowerment and Climate‐Smart Agriculture: Insights and Implications for Achieving Gender Equity and Climate Resilience

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of male and female empowerment, as well as gender empowerment inequality, on the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Using a conditional mixed process model, we analyse survey data from 743 households across Henan, Shandong and Hebei provinces in China.
Junpeng Li, Wanglin Ma, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Ziqi Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emission Reporting for Agriculture: Frameworks and Metrics Matter

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Frameworks and metrics that reliably describe agricultural emission sources and carbon sinks are critical to the formulation of cost‐effective mitigation investment. This study identifies and compares three distinct emission reporting frameworks across metrics of total emissions and emissions intensity.
Johnny Machon, Christophe d'Abbadie, Ross Kingwell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land security and crop theft in rural Tanzania. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ochieng NA, Grote U, Basu AK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

Housing, Inequality and London

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Regional inequalities are deeply entrenched in the UK. London, and its wider region, is often seen as the beneficiary of these inequalities. The capital houses a disproportionate share of the nation's population and its economic output. But London is also home to higher levels of inequality, poverty and child poverty than anywhere else in the ...
Jack Brown, Joe Fyans
wiley   +1 more source