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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Soil Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Linket til højre henviser til rapporten i trykt format til download.This report provides an overview on new technologies for integrate sustainable and resilient management practices in arable ecosystems for advanced farmers, consultants, NGOs and policy makers.
Green, Ole   +8 more
openaire   +1 more source

Development of an Environmental Management System for Organic Farms and its Introduction into Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Increasing demands for documentation of farm activities as well as environment and quality assurance call for environment adapted management systems, also in organic farming. The model software REPRO is a tool for farm management and consultation.
Huelsbergen, Kurt-Juergen   +1 more
core  

Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal variability of streamflow under current and projected climate scenarios of Andit Tid watershed, central highland of Ethiopia

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability
This study examined the impact of climate change on streamflow in the Andit Tid watershed using climate models of dynamically downscaled Ethiopia’s CORDEX. The Arc SWAT and ArcGIS 10.5 software assessed the spatial and temporal distribution of streamflow,
Ayele Desalegn Woldemariam   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management on Spodosol for Oil Palm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The research was carried out in Oil Palm Plantation in Ngabang, Landak Distric, West Kalimantan in May 2008. Composite soil samples were taken from the soils, in which the oil palms indicated the nutrient disorders. The aims of the research were to study
Kasno, A. (Antonius)   +1 more
core  

Soil organic matter fractions affected by N-fertilizer in a green cane management in Brazilian Coastal Tableland

open access: green, 2018
Shirlei Almeida Assunção   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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