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Determinants of local food producer participation in state‐sponsored marketing programs: Evidence from Missouri

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
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Argumente pentru continuarea finanţării Inventarului Forestier Naţional [Arguments for the further funding of the National Forest Inventory] [PDF]

Bucovina Forestieră, 2014
The paper summarizes the rationale and motives for having implemented and financed the National Forest Inventory in order to clarify a series of questions raised by the criteria taken into account when the sampling grid was design.
Drăgoi Marian, Abrudan Ioan Vasile, Ionescu Ovidiu, Cenușă Radu Leontie, Borlea Florin, Bouriaud Laura, Popa Bogdan, Stăncioiu Petru Tudor, Strîmbu Bogdan, Biriș Iovu-Adrian, Bouriaud Olivier, Marin Gheorghe, Teodosiu Marius, Duduman Mihai Leonard, Nichiforel Liviu, Ene Liviu Teodor   +15 more
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Benefits of a strategic national forest inventory to science and society: the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis program

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2008
Forest Inventory and Analysis, previously known as Forest Survey, is one of the oldest research and development programs in the USDA Forest Service. Statistically-based inventory efforts that started in Scandinavian countries in the 1920s raised interest
Shaw John D
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Ongoing study on the integration of biodiversity concerns in management of forest concessions in Central Africa [PDF]

, 2008
Central Africa is home to the world's second largest contiguous tropical rainforest, after Amazon. Depending on countries in the sub-region, between 10% to 15% (Nasi, Cassagne, Billand, 2006) of the forests' surface area is occupied by protected areas ...
Billand, Alain, Fournier, Jérôme, Nguinguiri, Jean Claude, Souvannavong, Oudara   +3 more
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
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Flow similarity model predicts allometric size dependence, curvature, and covariation of 285 North American tree species

Ecosphere
Scaling patterns in plants have long interested biologists, particularly whether different species share similar patterns of growth, and whether differences in growth trajectories depend on plant size.
Charles A. Price, Todd A. Schroeder
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
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Advancing European Plant Variety Registration: Data‐Driven Insights and Stakeholder Perspectives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efficient plant variety registration is crucial for fostering innovation in the European Union, yet the current regulatory framework is complex and faces calls for reform. This study provides data‐driven evidence to inform the ongoing legislative debate by employing a mixed‐methods approach.
Sergio Urioste Daza, Ibtissem Taghouti, José María Gil Roig   +2 more
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Global Data Compilation Across Climate Gradients Supports the Use of Common Allometric Equations for Three Transatlantic Mangrove Species

Ecology and Evolution
Predicting the distribution, structure, and biomass of mangrove forests is an area of high research interest. Across the Atlantic East Pacific biogeographic region, three species are common and abundant members of local mangrove communities; Rhizophora ...
Charles A. Price, Benjamin Branoff, Karen Cummins, Romain Glèlè Kakaï, Danielle Ogurcak, Monica Papeș, Michael Ross, Kevin R. T. Whelan, Todd A. Schroeder   +8 more
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Climate sensitive growth model for volume and carbon storage of subtropical broadleaf secondary forests in China

Ecological Indicators
Studying the growth models of secondary forests is crucial for forest management in the context of climate change, particularly in the subtropical regions of China, where broadleaf secondary forests are both ecologically complex and abundant.
Kailun Zou, Qigang Xu, Peng He, Xianzhao Liu   +3 more
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