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A DEA-PCA Sustainability Metric for Processing Vegetable Crops
Wille, Nicola; Mitchell, Paul; Dong, Fengxia; Knuteson, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
-assessment survey that documents grower adoption of multiple sustainable practices, and then analyzes the data using data envelope …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068550
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Abstracts: Proceeding of National Seminar on "Integrated Rural Development and Management: Issues, Strategies and Policy Options"
Das, Prakash Kanti; Mallick, Amal Kumar; Dutta, Amitava; … - Faculty Centre for Integrated Rural Development and … - 2010
This document is a collection of 157 abstracts received during the National Seminar on "Integrated Rural Development and Management: Issues, Strategies and Policy Options" held at the IRDM Faculty Centre of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University during 17-18 December, 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800835
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Sustaining surface and groundwater resources; Proceedings of the Internatinal Workshop on Conjunctive Water Management for Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture in South Asia, April 16...
Bhatti, Ayesha; Jehangir, Waqar Ahmed - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009398456
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An assessment of five different theoretical frameworks to study the uptake of innovations
Botha, Neels; Atkins, Kris - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005
There are several theoretical frameworks one can draw upon to study the adoption process. Extension Theory, Bounded … assessing the frameworks we looked for contradictions, and how and whether these frameworks could be used to study the adoption … process. The assessment was done by using our own conceptual framework of the adoption process and we discuss the results in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008802827
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An Economic Evaluation of Adoption of the Conservation Compliance Program: A Stochastic Dominance Approach
Govindasamy, Ramu; Cochran, Mark J. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 15 (1997) 1
Using stochastic dominance, this paper examines the adoption of the Conservation Compliance Program (CCP) in twelve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599612
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Determinants of adoption and intensity of use of balanced nutrient management systems technologies in the northern Guinea savanna of Nigeria
Akinola, Adebayo A.; Arega, D.A.; Adeyemo, Remi; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
influence the adoption and intensity of utilization of BNMS technologies in the NGS of Nigeria. Results showed that less than 10 …, by 2005 the adoption of BNMS-rotation had reached 40% while that of BNMS-manure had reached 48%. A number of factors such … significant in determining farmers’ adoption decisions on BNMS-manure while off-farm income was found to be significant in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068389
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Impact of United States Corn-based Ethanol Production on Land Use
Sobowale, Folakemi; Dicks, Michael R.; Campiche, Jody L. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011
The purpose of this research was to determine whether indirect land use occurs and if so to what extent. Indirect land use is a change from non-cropland to cropland (e.g. deforestation) that may occur in response to increasing scarcity of cropland. As farmers worldwide respond to higher crop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922700
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An Overview of the Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food System 2011
Agriculture Canada, Government of Canada - 2011
This 2011 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004302
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State of the ARMS - Crop Production Practices
Ebel, Robert M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020758
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MEASURING TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN A SMALL-SCALE FISHERY: A causality analysis
Sergio, Colin-Castillo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
The analysis of technical efficiency (TE) on the small-scale fishery is relevant for several reasons. While this type of fishery is highly common in developing countries like Mexico, there are a very limited number of analyses assessing their efficiency. Indeed, there is no precise information...
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