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The Real Cost of HLB in Florida

EDIS, 2019
I estimated the cultural cost per acre of managing HLB in orange citrus groves in Florida to be $663, which represents a 67% increase compared to pre-HLB levels.
Ariel Singerman
doaj  

Estimating growout production costs of commercial‐scale marine finfish production in southern tier US states

Journal of the World Aquaculture Society
Increased interest in marine fish farming in the United States has led to a need for fundamental economic information on production of candidate species for commercialization in various production systems.
Carole Ruth Engle, Noah C. Boldt, Jonathan vanSenten, Michael Schwarz   +3 more
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

Applied 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

Assessing socioeconomic dynamics in Windhoek informal settlements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia

Environmental Research Communications
This study conducted an analysis of household income levels in relation to various sociodemographic factors over three distinct periods: pre-COVID-19, during COVID-19, and post-COVID-19. It investigates several determinants of household income categories,
C N Jona, N P Petrus, C Togarepi, S Shivolo-Useb, J Muzanima, M N T Shipandeni   +5 more
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana, Linda Arata, Margherita Muzzillo, Paolo Sckokai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Applied 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, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Really Drives Agri‐Environment‐Climate Measures' Adoption? Mandatory Requirements, Behavioral Traits, and Structural Factors in the CAP Green Architecture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata, M. Rodríguez‐Entrena, M. Espinosa‐Goded, F. J. Dessart, J. Barreiro‐Hurlé   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

HEREDITY AND ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION OF FOOD [PDF]

Journal of Heredity, 1920
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openaire   +2 more sources

Promoting Healthier Drinking: Evidence From a Vignette Experiment on Contextual and Informational Drivers of Dealcoholized Wine Choices

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci, Giulia Maesano, Leonardo Casini, Maurizio Canavari, Marija Cerjak   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perception of risk of climate change on non-communicable diseases in economically rural China: a mixed method study

Critical Public Health
This study investigates the association between climate change and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) specifically chronic diseases, by analyzing correlations between perceived climatic alterations and the incidence rates of five NCDs categories over a ...
Yu Yang, Yang Zhang, Jiajun Zhou, Yang Liu, Linshan Lin, Shijia Kang, Gaofei Yang, Johannes Sauer   +7 more
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