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Testing environmental and health pesticide use risk indicators. The case of potato production in Boyacá, Colombia [PDF]
Tropentag 2010 ETH Zurich, September 14 - 16, 2010 Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Developmentpesticide risk, indicators, sustainability, health, environment, Colombia, Crop Production ...
Binder, Claudia R. +2 more
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Property Regimes in Resource Conservation-A Framework for Analysis [PDF]
This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing property regimes in conservation of natural resources. Human beings interaction with their environment is governed through institutions of property; therefore they play an important role in the ...
Hasan, Lubna
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Cogent Food & AgricultureThe study evaluated the impact of adopting improved coffee Arabica on organic coffee producers’ households’ livelihoods by employing data obtained from 120 coffee producer households in the Gedeo zone.
Negussie Zeray Gebru +2 more
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Selected Reliable Indicators of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in the European Union
Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development, 2017 The concept of sustainability and the feasibility options have been discussed in specialized literature sources for about three decades only. Sustainable development has several definitions; it is defined both in narrow and wider sense. The definition of
Tóth-Naár Zsuzsanna +3 more
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COMMON-PROPERTY RESOURCE USE AND OUTSIDE OPTIONS: COOPERATION ACROSS GENERATIONS IN A DYNAMIC GAME [PDF]
This paper presents a noncooperative dynamic game with overlapping generations of players using a common-property natural resource, and identifies conditions under which cooperation is supported as an equilibrium of the game.
Tarui, Nori
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang +3 more
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An estimate of the willingness to pay for treated wastewater for irrigation in Oman
Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, 2016 The volume of Treated Wastewater (TW) produced in Oman is increasing, due to increased connection of houses to the sewage network and increased construction of wastewater treatment plants.
Slim Zekri +3 more
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AN AGENDA FOR THE STUDY OF LAND USE, WILDERNESS DESIGNATION, AND RESOURCE REGULATION IN THE AMERICAN WEST [PDF]
Atemporal and intertemporal use of public lands, the determination of optimal levels of wilderness designation and habitat preservation, and the appropriate regulation of natural resources have all been "hot button" issues in the American West for quite ...
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.
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Using option pricing theory to estimate option value - a preliminary study [PDF]
, 1993 The purpose of this report is to compare and contrast two approaches to incorporating uncertainty when evaluating natural resource problems. The first approach incorporates option pricing theory which is derived from the financial economics literature ...
Longley Brett, +2 more
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