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Labor-saving technologies in agriculture have been fundamental to the advancement of the agricultural industry, and in …-saving technology adoptions in agriculture, including crops and livestock. Finally, we discuss the future of labor-saving technologies … in agriculture and their implications for new societal and economic structures …
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more reliant on climate than agriculture. Evidence from the American settlement process suggests that societies can … successfully adapt to new climatic environments. Whether and how much agriculture will manage to adapt to a changing climate …
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factor in the complex development of U.S. agriculture …
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that is able to mimic the spatial patterns (mosaic) of land use typical of subsistence agriculture in southern Cameroon … importance of path-dependency as a factor in the evolution of the forest-fallow-agriculture mosaic. Finally, I demonstrate its … households and the agriculture-fallow-forest mosaic …
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There exists negligible empirical evidence to either refute or confirm the pervasive belief that food aid has significant disincentive effects on recipient food production at both micro and macro levels. This paper aims to fill this void. Using household level data from rural Ethiopia, we...
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In the present paper, risk-management problems where farmers manage risk both through production decisions and through …
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. This paper outlines a research program comparing the economic organization of agriculture in the U.S. and European Union (E … areas, so European agriculture is more closely tied with local economic, demographic, and cultural issues …
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The indirect benefits of a commercial tree crop for greenhouse gas and groundwater recharge abatement are analysed. Oil mallees are introduced into a whole-farm linear programming model as a source of income, an offset to greenhouse gas emissions from the mixed sheep and cropping enterprises and...
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prevention of pollution. Second-generation measures pay farmers for providing environmental public goods. The emphasis on …
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