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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Notes on Jurisprudence: The Lease of State Private Property and Its Intuitu Personale Nature

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2011
Starting from a case of the jurisprudence of the Cluj Court of Appeal, this study probes into the different aspects of the contract of lease for lands pertaining to the State’s private domain (that is, under the Local Council’s management) through which ...
Ovidiu PODARU
doaj  

The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

LEASE – OWNERSHIP OF REAL PROPERTY IN COMMON LAW SYSTEM –

open access: yesPravo, 2010
In this seminar paper we analyzed ownership lease agreement concluded 1995th, in London. The aim of this study was identification of the basic characteristics of Common Law, legal system which consists of three parts: the Statute Law, Common Law and ...
Katarina Ljubovic
doaj  

On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
wiley   +1 more source

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
wiley   +1 more source

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