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Making hay, the right way: Oregon farmers organize to market certified weed-free, premium hay

Schofer, Dan; Sherwin, Dan; Diebel, Penelope (Rural Business–Cooperative Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2004-03)

Grower cooperatives and quasi-cooperative producer associations have a long tradition of using group action to establish or improve quality standards and to promote product uniformity for their crops and livestock. Th ...
Malaria and Economic Development

Datta, Saurabh C.; Reimer, Jeffrey J. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013-02)

Malaria tends to have a negative correlation with national income per capita. Many existing studies emphasize how falling rates of malaria can enhance economic development due to the beneficial effect on human capital. T ...
A method for evaluating climate change adaptation strategies for small-scale farmers using survey, experimental and modeled data

Claessens, L.; Antle, J. M.; Stoorvogel, J. J.; Valdivia, R. O.; Thornton, P. K.; Herrero, M. (Elsevier, 2012-09)

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is predicted to experience considerable negative impacts of climate change. The IPCC Fourth Assessment emphasizes that adaptation strategies are essential. Addressing adaptation in the context of ...
On the Economics of Virtual Water Trade

Reimer, Jeffrey J. (Elsevier, 2012-03)

Virtual water trade is increasingly recognized as a useful metaphor for thinking about freshwater resources in an international context. Its legitimacy in terms of economic theory has been questioned by a number of autho ...
Optimally managing a stochastic renewable resource under general economic conditions

McGough, Bruce; Plantinga, Andrew J.; Costello, Christopher (Berkeley Electronic Press, 2009-12-28)

Empirical evidence indicates that environmental fluctuations have important effects on fisheries production. However, existing analytical solutions of stochastic fisheries models have been produced only under highly si ...
Securing water for wetland conservation: A comparative analysis of policy options to protect a national nature reserve in China

Wu, Jian; Wu, JunJie; Wang, Xiaoxia; Zhong, Ma (Elsevier, 2012-02)

This study evaluates four policy options to secure the water supply needed for wetland conservation in Qixinghe—a national wetland nature reserve in China—using four criteria: cost effectiveness, probability of success i ...
Threshold Management in A Coupled Economic-Ecological System

Chen, Yong; Jayaprakash, Ciriyam; Irwin, Elena (Elsevier, 2012-11)

Economic analysis of optimal ecosystem management in the presence of a threshold has typically ignored the potential for induced behavioral responses. This paper contributes to the literature on non-convex ecosystem ma ...
Trade Policy Reform, Productivity Growth and Welfare in South Korean Agriculture

Yoo, Chun Kwon; Gopinath, Munisamy; Kim, Hanho (Oxford University Press, 2012)

We examine the effects of multilateral trade reform on Korean agriculture and economy. We first measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) and its components, technological and technical efficiency change, by e ...