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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Resource Use Efficiency of Millet/Cowpea Intercropping in Niger State, Nigeria [PDF]
The study examined the profitability and resources-use efficiency of millet/cowpea mixed farmers production in Niger state Nigeria. The primary data for the study was obtained using structured questionnaire administered to 80 randomly sampled farmers in ...
Adiele, M.A. +3 more
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Enhancement of essential oil yield and quality of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) via intercropping system, AMF and PGPR. [PDF]
Sci RepEbrahimi A +2 more
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The Niger Food Crisis: Causes and Implications for Research and Development from an Integrated Agricultural Economics Perspective [PDF]
During the 2004 food crisis in Niger, the weakness of the main production system, millet, to produce enough food to sustain short term crises, has been revealed.
Abele, Steffen, Twine, Edgar
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Three-Year Cereal: Field Bean Intercropping Greatly Reduced Weed Abundance with Small Changes in Functional Composition. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)Arduini I +5 more
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang +2 more
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Fertilizer type and intercropping influence the metabolic and nutritional profiles of borage and peanut. [PDF]
Sci RepSalari F +3 more
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