The economic contribution of open spaces extends beyond the regular farmers' agricultural profits. This contribution is expressed in positive environmental externalities which include an attractive landscape, improved air quality, noise reduction, lower temperatures, shading, and potential use...

Regional planning should consider the impact of agricultural crops on housing value and leisure, as well as on the local environment. We designed an optimization model for allocating agricultural crops based on farmers profits as well as the impact on these three factors. Each crop creates a...

Agriculture around the world is going though many changes, including globalization, new emerging technologies, environmental concerns, tendency to produce highly specialized goods, and global merging of food producers and retailers. These changes follow political, institutional, technological...

European environmental groups have been calling to switch from imported agricultural produce to locally grown produce, citing positive social and economic impacts as well as environmental ones; and especially the benefit of reducing the environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions caused...

This paper proposes a practical, relatively simple approach to the benefit evaluation of research proposals in a large research portfolio, which may include hundreds of relatively small-scale proposals (for example, agricultural research funds). The approach is based on the measurement of...