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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Agricultural census"”.
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Mapping and modeling British Columbia's food self-sufficiency
… local scale by integrating federally gathered agricultural land use and yield data from the Agricultural Census and various surveys. Second, I construct population-level food consumption estimates based on provincial nutrition survey and regional demographics. Third, I construct a …
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CENÁRIO DA AGRICULTURA ORGÂNICA NO SEMIARIDO BRASILEIRO
… of these productive activities in the agricultural establishments. For this purpose, a survey of the main information related to organic and family agriculture in the IBGE's Agricultural Census was carried out for 2006. The Brazilian Semi-Arid region accounts for 33.26% of the total …
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The role of interstate trade and crop insurance programs on the U.S. agriculture’s capacity to adapt to climate change
… three essays related to the economics of agricultural policies and climate change. The first essay discusses the relationship between interstate trade and the mitigation of native impacts caused by increasing frequency of severe droughts due to climate change. I combine two commonly used …
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Fresh Squeezed: The Dilemma of Local Food Production Along Colorado's Front Range Urban Corridor
… of Colorado is one example from the urban/agricultural battlefield. The history of food production and urbanization in this area is similar to many regions throughout the western United States. Originally an extraction based economy, Colorado later became agriculturally/pastorally based, …
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Novel text entry and mobile interaction techniques for Arabic language users
Inspired by an observational study of Egyptian Agricultural Census counters, this research aims to improve mobile data entry though better form navigation and improved Arabic text entry. Four improvements were taken into consideration in sequence: (1) minimizing large forms to fit small mobile …
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Examining the spatial influences of natural capital in the Australian agricultural landscape
… of on-farm natural capital in the Australian agricultural landscape over space and time. In particular, it explored: 1) the spatial influences on the adoption of certified organic farming (which is used as a proxy indicator of natural capital conservation technologies) at a regional level in …
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Labor dynamics in Finnish dairy farming: workforce composition, employment patterns & generational shifts – panel data analysis (2000-2020)
… input. By utilizing longitudinal data from the Agricultural Census, the study analyses the population of 22,913 dairy farms in Finland and depict periodic shifts in production orientation, labor distribution among ownership forms of family farm, agricultural company and legal entity. The results …
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Remote sensing and GIS in support of sustainable agricultural development
… that the vast amounts of area currently in agricultural production will face growing pressure to intensify as world populations continue to grow, and the demand for a more Western-based diet increases. Coupled with the potential consequences of climate change, and the increasing costs …
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The community loses when it loses farmers: impacts of a changing local farmland market
… background interviews; and 3) population and agricultural census data. The restructuring of local farmland markets by growing farm concentration, cash-rent replacing crop-share leasing, and the invasion of aggressive non-local landlords and operators raises 21st century challenges to …
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A systematic conservation assessment of habitat transformation and degradation in the Little Karoo, South Africa
… unit. Finally, using long-term climate and agricultural census records, the historic causes of degradation in the region were also investigated. The results indicate that 53.4% of the habitat units are moderately degraded with 14.1 % considered severely degraded. The Succulent Karoo biome, …
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Food Security Crop Price Transmission and Formation in Nigeria
… 2 is an empirical analysis of the current agricultural statistics system in Nigeria. A number of sources gather and report agricultural statistics for the country. Since there has not been an agricultural census implemented there for multiple decades, however, there is no objective source …
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Ecological succession on abandoned farmland and its relationship to wildlife production in Cumberland County, Virginia
… years (United States Department of Commerce, Agricultural Census, 1950). In the state this represents approximately two and one half million acres of wildlife habitat which is in a state of dynamic change. Such abandoned areas may be among the more important wildlife producing areas 1n the …
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Geotec II: proposição de um índice geográfico-tecnoógico para o setor agropecuário brasileiro
A agricultura é uma atividade econômica dependente, em grande parte, do meio físico. O aspecto ecológico confere fundamental importância ao processo de produção agropecuária. Um país ou região apresenta várias sub-regiões com distintas condições de solo e clima e, portanto, com distintas aptidões …