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Farm-to-Fork: A Proposed Revision of the Classical Food Miles Concept
Wong, Alfred; Hallsworth, Alan - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 1
supply to Vancouver, the CO2 emission was estimated to be about 7 times higher for tomatoes grown in local greenhouses than …
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AUCTIONING OUTCOME-BASED CONSERVATION CONTRACTS
Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe; Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
This paper explores two ideas to enhance the performance of agri-environmental contracting schemes: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper investigates whether there are any gains to be had by combining the benefits of both...
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Cost-effectiveness of alternative green payment policies for conservation technology adoption with heterogeneous land quality
Khanna, Madhu; Isik, Murat; Zilberman, David - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 2
This paper quantitatively analyses the cost-effectiveness of alternative green payment policies designed to achieve a targeted level of pollution control by heterogeneous micro units. These green payment policies include cost-share subsidies that share the fixed costs of adoption of a...
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La agricultura: situación actual y perspectivas de un sector tradicional en el marco de las políticas de desarrollo rural
HERNÁNDEZ, MARÍA HERNÁNDEZ; MANTERO, ENRIQUE A. MOLTÓ - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2001) 191
En la sociedad europea de finales del siglo XX, la agricultura no presenta la relevancia económica que tuvo en otras épocas. Estos paisajes, resultado de la interacción hombre-medio, en la actualidad han adquirido un nuevo valor vinculado a la función recreativa. Su mantenimiento, sin...
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Should we combine incentive payments and tendering for efficiently purchasing conservation services from landholders?
Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010
Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to provide non-marketed environmental services need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper...
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Exploring Linkages Among Agriculture, Trade, and the Environment: Issues for the Next Century
Krissoff, Barry; Ballenger, Nicole; Dunmore, John C.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1996
Many trade and environment issues will confront agriculture over the next several years. This report provides an economic framework to better understand these issues and discusses prior empirical inquiries and findings. Four primary issues are addressed: (1) how will environmental policies...
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The ‘wickedness’ of GM crop applications in the European Union
Inghelbrecht, L; Dessein, J; Van Huylenbroeck, G - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management 03 (2014) 2
The European Union (EU) still retains genetically modified (GM) crop applications within its agriculture and on the EU … market. The current EU non-GM crop regime is in fact a ‘fictitious’ or ‘virtual’ non-GM crop regime that has … to induce change when the GM potato Amflora was resolutely authorised for cultivation in the EU. True solutions require …
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Subsydia eksportowe i ich oddziaływanie na światowy handel rolny
Przygodzka, Renata - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 02 (2007) 17
The article concentrates on the analysis of economic mechanisms of export subsidies, which are currently used in agricultural trade. They induce numerous negative effects, leading to an ineffective allocation of resources on an international scale. The agreement reached in the recent years...
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Visegrad countries - agrarian foreign trade development in relation to their total merchandise trade performance
Svatoš, Miroslav; Smutka, Luboš - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 14 (2014) 29
significantly concentrated. The predominant majority of agricultural trade – export as well as import – is carried out with EU …
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Wyposażenie w czynniki wytwórcze oraz efektywność ich wykorzystania w gospodarstwach UE
Błażejczyk-Majka, Lucyna; Maciejewski, Krzysztof - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 04 (2008) 19
of regions in the old EU countries, and also an analysis of equipment in labour force, land and capital depending on the …
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