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Using of welfare economics instruments for evaluation of agricultural research benefits

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2005
Except for direct forms of support of agriculture, including market price support, direct payments and support of agricultural inputs, there also exist many forms of indirect support of agriculture.
Libor Grega
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Estimating Producer's Surplus with the Censored Regression Model: An Application to Producers Affected by Columbia River Basin Salmon Recovery

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2000
Application of the tobit model to estimate economic welfare is transferred from the consumer side to the producer side. Supply functions are estimated for multioutput irrigators in the Pacific Northwest.
Michael R. Moore, Noel R. Gollehon, Daniel Hellerstein   +2 more
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Benchmarking irrigation water use in producer fields in the US central Great Plains

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
Efficient use of freshwater resources is necessary to balance food production and long-term sustainability of irrigated agricultural systems. Here we developed a framework to benchmark irrigation water use relative to crop yield for individual fields ...
Katherine E B Gibson, Justin P Gibson, Patricio Grassini   +2 more
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Microeconomic surplus in health care: Applied economic theory in health care in four European countries

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2013
Introduction: In economic theory economic surplus refers to two related quantities: Consumer and producer surplus. Applying this theory to health care convenience could be one way how consumer benefits might manifest itself.
Stefan eWalzer, Mark eNuijten, Christof eWiesner, Klaus eKaier, Per-Olov eJohansson, Stephan eOertel   +5 more
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Global implications of national price policies on the wheat market - quantitative assessment of world market effects

Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2009
Price policy instruments are common political measures to influence the supply and export of agricultural products. Different price policies have thus different influence on national agricultural markets.
J. Ziolkowska, K. Jechlitschka, D. Kirschke   +2 more
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Effects of Maize Importation on the Economic Welfare of Maize Producers and Consumers in Kenya: A Partial Equilibrium Model Approach

Contemporary Agriculture, 2022
Maize imports bridge the maize supply-demand gap in Kenya. However, this does not automatically imply any positive or negative effects of such imports on the economic welfare of maize producers and consumers in the country.
Abodi Maurine Adhiambo, Obare Gideon Aiko, Kariuki Isaac Maina   +2 more
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Enhancing Technical Efficiency and Economic Welfare: A Case Study of Smallholder Potato Farming in the Western Highlands of Guatemala

Economia Agro-Alimentare, 2022
Smallholder farmers in the Western Highlands of Guatemala grow potatoes for subsistence and as a cash crop but their current productivity is 29% lower than the world average.
Rupananda Widanage, Catherine Chan, Yin-Phan Tsang, Brent Sipes, Haddish Melakeberhan, Amílcar Sanchez-Perez, Alfredo Mejía-Coroy   +6 more
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The Forecast of Economic Welfare and Food Security of Iran under Climate Changes* [PDF]

Environmental Energy and Economic Research, 2019
Food security and economic welfare strongly depend on agricultural production, the loss of this production can be a serious challenge for food security and economic welfare. Agricultural production is also influenced by environmental and climatic factors
Sourosh Kiani, Javad Shahraki, Ahmad Akbari, Ali Sardar Shahraki   +3 more
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Impact of NAFTA on U.S. and Mexican Sugar Markets

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2015
When NAFTA became fully implemented for sugar in 2008, Mexico became the leading sugar exporter into the United States, accounting for nearly 70% of U.S. imports in 2013.
Troy G. Schmitz, Karen E. Lewis
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Nonmarket Economic Valuation and "The Economist’s Fallacy"

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2009
It is important that noneconomists understand and consider three key points regarding the use of economic cost-benefit analysis. First, economists undertaking applied cost-benefit analyses use expected values by necessity in forward-looking models ...
Murray A Rudd
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