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U.S. Agriculture's Role in a Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation World : An Economic Perspective

McCarl, Bruce A.; Schneider, Uwe A. - 2015

International agreements are likely to stimulate greenhouse gas mitigation efforts. Agriculture can participate either … where agriculture could sell emission offsets. Several agricultural opportunities are available at a cost of $10-25 per ton … dioxide. In the longer run, agriculture's role may diminish because many agricultural strategies offer only one-time gains and …

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Economic Perspectives in Agricultural Systems Analysis

Crawford, Eric W.; Colin, Jean Philippe - 2010

The paper highlights the great diversity of economic research on agricultural systems, through the presentation of selected approaches: modern farm management, farming systems research, agricultural household economics, French Africanist rural economics, and behavioral and multidisciplinary...

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How Unilateral Economic Sanctions Affect the Farm Economy : An Inter-Industry Analysis

Wiese, Arthur M. - 2010

This paper examines how unilateral economic sanctions affect the U.S. farm economy. A key result is that the total impact of unilateral sanctions on the U.S. economy is larger than the direct impacts on industries whose exports have been constrained (in some cases more than twice as large)....

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The Role of Agricultural and Female Labor Mobility in Taiwan??S Industrialization : 1976-91

Levenson, Alec Robert - 2015

movements of labor out of agriculture. In reality the net increase in nonagricultural jobs was filled by new labor …-market entrants, not by net transfers of labor out of agriculture. Some women from agricultural households transferred into …

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Economywide Impact of Maize Export Bans on Agricultural Growth and Household Welfare in Tanzania : A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model Analysis

Diao, Xinshen; Kennedy, Adam; Mabiso, Athur; Pradesha, Angga - 2013

international food price hikes. While this policy seems to be a common response to domestic production shortfalls or to high prices … in international or neighboring countries’ markets, export bans not only have the potential to reduce producer prices … locally but also, because the bans are often ad hoc, can cause significant market uncertainty for farmers and the private …

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Estimating the Long-Run Supply and Demand for Agricultural Labour in the UK

Balcombe, Kelvin G.; Prakash, A. - 2000

In this paper we derive supply and demand equations for labour in the UK agricultural sector. Using a cointegrating vector autoregression framework, identifying restrictions from theory are imposed, and the long-run labour supply and demand relationships are estimated. We find a significant...

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