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Assessing the Efficiency of Alternative Best Management Practices to Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution in the Saline Bayou Watershed, Louisiana

Pokhrel, Bijay; Paudel, Krishna - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

agricultural land retirement can reduce most of the phosphorus runoff in the watershed at the lowest cost. Results are robust to …

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Site-Specific Simulation of Nutrient Control Policies: Integrating Economic and Water Quality Effects

Burkhart, Christopher S.; Jha, Manoj K. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 37 (2012) 1

more efficient under larger reductions. Phosphorus reductions at the subwatershed level vary but provide information about …

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Economics of Size in Dairy Farm Adjustment to Water Quality Constraints

Heimlich, Ralph E. - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 1982

Adjustment of small, medium, and large Vermont dairy farms to successively tighter constraints on phosphorus loss was … modeled using linear programming. Aggregate response to phosphorus control was estimated for an area from farm marginal costs …. Medium and large farms have lower costs than small farms and could achieve higher levels of phosphorus reduction at the same …

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How much can be gained by optimizing nutrient abetment spatially – Cost – efficiency comparison of non – point arable loads from different Finnish watersheds

Helin, Janne; Tattari, Sirkka - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

Targeting has become the buzz word in the national agri-environmental policy reform in Finland. It is generally accepted that more environmental benefits could be reaped by implementing environmental protection measures where they have the biggest positive impact. However, considering one of the...

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Sulphur test KCl-40 and growth of the Australian canola industry

Consulting, ACIL - Australian Centre for International Agricultural … - 1998

) funded research at the University of New England to help better understand and improve phosphorus and sulfur management in … demands for soil phosphorus and sulfur increase. Major outcomes of the research were a better understanding of the nutrient …

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Auctioning Conservation Contracts and Evaluating the Risk Attitudes of Farmers: Economic Experiments in Japan

Sasaki, Hiroki; Fujie, Takeshi; Kawasaki, Kentaro; … - 2010

Agri-environmental programs in Japan have generally been promoted through the provision of fixedpayments for certain environment-friendly farming and management practices. However, the auctioning of agrienvironmentalcontracts is a noteworthy alternative for the furtherance of such programs....

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The adoption of market-based instruments for resource management: Three case studies

Sinner, Jim; Fenemor, Andrew; Palmer, James - 2005

Market-based instruments (MBIs) for resource management create financial incentives for people and businesses to use resources more efficiently, within a regulatory context designed to ensure that ecological, social and cultural objectives are also met. Three case studies were done to identify...

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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability

Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005

The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...

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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008

Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...

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2009

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