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Construction of large sports stadiums follows two different general concepts: (a) monofunctional arenas that are specially suited for one sport exclusively and that are characterized by the absence of an athletic track and (b) multifunctional sports stadiums that can be used for different...
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The paper presents an econometric model of dynamic agricultural input demand functions that includes research based technical change and autoregressive disturbances and fits the model to data for a set of state aggregates pooled over 1950-82. The methodological approach is one of developing a...
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Agriculture is not a large contributor to Hawaii's economy but despite the recent decline in the sugar industry it is … an important sector in terms of its contribution to food supply, income, and employment. Agriculture influences the …
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The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 gave U.S. universities and researchers property rights to innovations funded by federal money.This act led many universities to create Offices of Technology Transfer (OTTs) to assess innovations.The role of the OTT in the development of agricultural biotechnologies is...
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In most low-income countries, rural households depend on mixed rain-fed agriculture/livestock production, which is very …
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The forest and agriculture sectors are linked by having a portion of their land bases suitable for use in either sector …. A substantial part of the southern land base is suitable for either forestry or agriculture use, with most tree planting … on U.S. agriculture land in the South. We examine how land exchanges between forestry and agriculture are influenced by …
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. Investment models estimated with Kansas farm panel data indicate that: (a) farms absorb internal finance shocks by adjusting …
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This paper explores the interrelationship between poverty, risk, and deforestation by small farmers in the low … intriguing, testable hypothesis also emerges: that market-oriented reforms that increase the mean and variance of food prices may … inadvertently stimulate deforestation in economies in which a sizable proportion of farmers are net buyers …
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New land reforms are again high on the policy agenda and low-cost, propoor reforms are being tested in poor countries. This article assesses the investment and productivity impacts of the recent low-cost land certification implemented in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, using a unique household...
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