ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT [PDF]
Public support for integrated pest management (IPM) is derived in part from concerns over food safety and the environment, yet few studies have assessed the economic value of health and environmental benefits of IPM.
Mullen, Jeffrey D. +2 more
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Re-examining economic options for import risk assessments [PDF]
The economic impacts of altering quarantine policies are divided into two main areas: trade evaluations, utilising a partial equilibrium approach to determine the benefits of market liberalisation; or pest management economics, used to determine the on ...
David Adamson, David Cook
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Tourism supply chain & strategic partnerships for managing the complexity in tourism industry [PDF]
, 2017 The paper aims to investigate the possible relationship between Tourism Supply Chain and Strategic Partnership, read as a way to reduce and better manage the complexity in Tourism Industry. This last has been analysed under multi-disciplinary approaches
Calabrese, Mario +3 more
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Emerging advances in biosecurity to underpin human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health
iScience, 2023 Summary: One Biosecurity is an interdisciplinary approach to policy and research that builds on the interconnections between human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health to effectively prevent and mitigate the impacts of invasive alien species.
Philip E. Hulme +12 more
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Tending Animals in the Global Village—A Guide to International Veterinary Medicine . . . . Import Risk Analysis: Animals and Animal Products . . . . Exotic Pests & Disease: Biology and Economics for Biosecurity . . . . Borna Disease Virus and Its Role in Neurobehavioral Disease . . . . Foot and Mouth Disease: Facing the New Dilemmas . . . . Trends in Emerging Viral Infections of Swine . . . . Clinical Examination of Farm Animals . . . . Manual of Sheep Diseases (2nd edition) . . . . … [PDF]
, 2003 Mustaq A. Memon +25 more
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Pareto-efficient biological pest control enable high efficacy at small costs [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Biological pest control is increasingly used in agriculture as a an alternative to traditional chemical pest control. In many cases, this involves a one-off or periodic release of naturally occurring and/or genetically modified enemies such as predators, parasitoids, or pathogens. As the interaction between these enemies and the pest is complex and the
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Farmers’ Perceptions and Willingness to Pay for Metarhizium-based Biopesticide to Control Cotton Bollworms in Benin (West Africa) [PDF]
The study assesses farmers’ perceptions and willingness to pay for a biopesticide developed from Metarhizium anisopliae a fungi. A sample of 400 conventional and organic cotton producers was randomly selected in cotton producing zones in Benin and ...
Adetonah, S. +4 more
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Management of strawberry blossom weevil and European tarnished plant bug in organic strawberry and raspberry using semiochemical traps [PDF]
, 2012 The strawberry blossom weevil (Anthonomus rubi) and the European tarnished plant bug (Lygus rugulipennis) cause large (10 - >80%) losses in yield and quality in organically grown berries.
Apenite, Ilze +7 more
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Measuring specialty crop grower willingness to pay for genetic modification and genetic editing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract In contrast to the widespread adoption of agricultural commodities modified using biotechnology, the adoption rate of bioengineered specialty crops by growers remains low. The use of bioengineered crops has been controversial since their introduction in the 1990s due to concerns about their potentially harmful effects to human health, the ...
Marie Abbey +5 more
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Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract We derive price premiums for patented or trademarked apple varieties, also known as “club apples,” compared to open‐variety apples. We use an expansive retail scanner dataset, along with unique data on apple taste characteristics, to estimate monthly club apple premiums for 2008–2018.
Modhurima Dey Amin +3 more
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