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clean energy alternatives such as biogas. Unlike at any other time in Rwanda's history, more and more Rwandans in rural … programme known as Girinka. This paper focuses on the various strategies employed by the government of Rwanda in achieving … increased biogas use among the rural poor Girinka beneficiaries who use cow dung for their domestic biogas plants. Conditions …
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The development of biogas production in Germany has reshaped agricultural land use and production schemes since the … major substrate. While it contributes significantly to the renewable energy production, intensive maize-for-biogas …, little is known about the plot-based distribution and development of silage maize for biogas production and, therefore, the …
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The development of biogas production in Germany has reshaped agricultural land use and production schemes since the … major substrate. While it contributes significantly to the renewable energy production, intensive maize-for-biogas …, little is known about the plot-based distribution and development of silage maize for biogas production and, therefore, the …
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We examine the potential of bioenergy crops to offset greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels, assuming homogeneous agricultural land and distance-dependent transport costs. Variable transport costs define the socially and privately optimal extensive margin of the bioenergy crop production...
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This paper investigates the effects of forestland on household income, poverty and inequality among households in Vietnam’s poorest rural districts, the North Central Provinces, using data from the Quantitative Socio-Economic Survey for Emission Reduction-Program (ERP) Provinces Areas...
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Single-stream recycling enables households to recycle an unsorted mix of cans, plastic, glass, and paper, thereby reducing recycling costs. The expansion of single-stream recycling in Wisconsin provides a natural experiment to assess the extent to which single-stream increases recycling...
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This paper presents the evolution of diverse modes of environmental management in Bulgarian agriculture, and assesses their efficiency and likely prospects of development. First, it analyzes the pace of development and the impact(s) on individual behavior of the major modes of environmental...
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This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of management agro-ecosystem services. That new approach for analyses and assessment of management of agro-ecosystem services includes: definition of the...
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This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and...
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This paper suggests a holistic framework for analyzing the forms and efficiency of agri-environmental management; assesses evolution of market, private, public and hybrid modes of agri-eco-governance during transition and EU integration in Bulgarian; evaluates the impacts of EU CAP on...
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