Search Results - subject:"Conservation practices"

An Overview of Carbon Offsets from Agriculture

Gonzalex-Ramirez, Jimena; Kling, Catherine Louise; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012

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Conservation Practices for Landlords

Duffy, Michael - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012

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Management of Soil Conservation Practices in Haiti: A Comparative Analysis of Alley Cropping and Rock Walls

Bayard, Budry; Jolly, Curtis M.; Wilson, Norbert L.W.; … - In: Farm and Business - The Journal of The Caribbean … 6 (2003) 1

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Assessing the Costs and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Land Use Changes: A Site-Specific, Policy-Scale Modeling Approach.

Kling, Catherine Louise; Wu, JunJie; Adams, Richard M.; … - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2003

policy-scale model is applied to the case of green payments for the adoption of conservation practices (conservation tillage … for conservation tillage and crop rotations increase the use of these conservation practices. However, the acreage … application suggest that payments for conservation tillage and crop rotations increase the use of these conservation practices …

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FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GLOBAL WARMING: ALTERNATIVE FARMING SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY

Paudel, Krishna P.; Lohr, Luanne - Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, … - 2002

According to Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol, agricultural soil could be used as a sink for carbon sequestration. Soil sequestration of carbon provides dual benefits: an increase in soil productivity and a reduction in atmospheric carbon concentration. The gain in soil productivity is a slow...

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Planning for Implementation of Riparian Buffers in the Feitsui Reservoir Watershed

Chang, Chia-Ling; Hsu, Tsung-Hung; Wang, Yunn-Jiin; … - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 10, pp. 2339-2352

conservation practices for the protection of Feitsui reservoir water quality. The control of non-point source pollution (NPS … strips and other appropriate conservation practices. Based on the use of watershed simulation models and a statistical …

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Least Cost Control of Agricultural Nutrient Contributions to the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone

Rabotyagov, Sergey S.; Campbell, Todd; Jha, Manoj; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2010

achieving nutrient reductions and the location of the agricultural conservation practices needed. The frontier allows …

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Getting to better water quality outcomes: the promise and challenge of the citizen effect

Morton, Lois; Weng, Chih - In: Agriculture and Human Values 26 (2009) 1, pp. 83-94

the variance among farmers’ perception of adequacy of their conservation practices is explained by a combination of …

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ESTIMATES OF PUBLIC SECTOR TRANSACTION COSTS IN NRCS PROGRAMS

McCann, Laura M.J.; Easter, K. William - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 32 (2000) 03

When evaluating the economic efficiency of policies to reduce nonpoint source pollution, administrative or transaction costs are usually not taken into account. While the importance of transaction costs has been recognized in the theoretical literature, the fact that they are not incorporated in...

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FACTORS AFFECTING CONSERVATION PRACTICE BEHAVIOR OF CRP PARTICIPANTS IN ALABAMA

Hendrix, Shannon; Wheelock, Gerald; Onianwa, Okwudili O. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 17 (1999) 2

This study examines the factors that affect conservation practice choices of CRP farmers in Alabama. From over 9,000 contracts enrolled in the state between 1986 and 1995, 594 were randomly selected for the study. A multiple-regression analysis was employed to analyze the data. Results indicate...

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