Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 701
Cover Image
An Analysis of the Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Yield and Yield Variability in Ethiopia
Kelbore, Zerihun Getachew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study investigates the impacts of climate change on mean and variance of crop yields in Ethiopia over a period of 28 years. We used a stochastic production function and estimated the effects of belg and kiremt rainfall on crop yields and variances. We find that the effects of the seasonal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113134
Cover Image
Impact of water management on agricultural production
Haq, Rashida; Shafique, Saima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper explores the impact of water management on output, labor, and capital growth for an agriculture …-based developing economy like Pakistan. According to empirical findings, capital stock and labor force in the agriculture sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112784
Cover Image
A Computer-based System for the Management of Field Crop Pests
Bhatti, S. A.; Hameed, N.; C., Inayatullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
This article describes an expert system, COT-XPERT, developed for controlling pests and diseases affecting cotton crop as well as a system for Rice Stem Borers (RSB) simulation. The system works in two parts: The first part addresses the issues of efficient use of knowledge for RSB problem and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113009
Cover Image
LÍMITES EN LA RECONVERSIÓN PRODUCTIVA DEL CAMPO MEXICANO. EL ROL DE LA LEGALIDAD AGRARIA
Reveles, Acosta; Lorena, Irma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper, the author analyzes the roll of the legal framework that prevails in Mexico on agrarian concerns, since the reform of 1992, in a context of the neoliberal economical model imposed on Latin America from the poles of international power and decision. En este documento se analiza el...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621469
Cover Image
Planning and costing of agricultural adaptation with reference to integrated hill farming systems in Nepal.
Paudel, Bikash; Tamang, B B; Lamsal, Krishna; Paudel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
1. Despite an existing information gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate patterns and options for the future, the community-based adaptation process should nevertheless be initiated. This requires community involvement through participatory planning in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113334
Cover Image
March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident impacts on Japanese agri-food sector
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124294
Cover Image
Expert assessment on agri-food implications of March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
agriculture, food industries and consumers as well as factors for persistence of negative impacts, and longer-term impacts on … Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. Nearly four years after the triple disaster, it gives … earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident on agriculture, food industries, and food consumption in different regions of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144090
Cover Image
Challenges Ahead of Ailing Indian Agriculture
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper takes stock of the state of agriculture in India, brings out with the stylised facts, issues and emerging … challenges related to agriculture sector and then makes an attempt to formulate policy measures for further growth of the Indian … agriculture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112204
Cover Image
Fragmentation and conversion of agriculture land in Nepal and Land Use Policy 2012
Paudel, Bikash; Pandit, Januka; Reed, Brinton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
High land fragmentation and accelerated rate of conversion of agriculture land are major challenges for food security … of agriculture land, and analyzes land use policy 2012 with respect to these problems. Analysis suggested that land … fragmentation and high rate of agriculture land conversion could partly be attributed to failures of previous land management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113149
Cover Image
The economic and environmental factors of water in arid regions: Study of the rural water use in Northern Darfur Region, Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We develop hypothetical policy scenarios in this part of the paper which are simulated using a product-by-industry economic-ecological model to investigate their impacts on water and other ecological commodities. Results are expected to contribute to the establishment of alternative policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147859