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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Impacts of agriculture"”.
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Three Essays on Measuring the Ex-ante Economic Impacts of Agriculture Technology Innovations
This dissertation is comprised of three essays that generate methods to measure the ex-ante economic impacts of agriculture technology innovations. The first essay entitled 'Valuing Intellectual Property Rights in an Imperfectly Competitive Market: A Biopharming Application' presents a method for …
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Assets and needs of local food producers in Sedgwick County: An exploratory analysis
… markets, community gardens, community-supported agriculture, and urban agriculture. The current study focused on the perspectives of local food producers in Sedgwick County. Using in-depth and inperson qualitative interviews, participants were asked what the assets and barriers are to alternative …
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Decision-Making in Agriculture: Why do Farmers Decide to Adopt a New Practice?
Current rates of environmental degradation demand changes to the way in which food is produced. Transforming agricultural production requires both the development and the adoption of new practices that facilitate high yields at least environmental cost. Many beneficial practices have already been …
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The role of agricultural intensification in modulating ecosystem properties of embedded subtropical wetlands
Natural wetlands are unique ecosystems that offer substantial services to the surrounding landscape, are host to immense biodiversity, and are the largest global emitters of biogenic methane to the atmosphere. The unique nature of wetland ecosystems cater to an extensive diversity of microorganisms …
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On the Climate-Agriculture-Water Nexus at the Regional Scale
Development of large-scale agriculture is one of the most significant anthropogenic global change processes during the 20𝑡h century. In this thesis, connections between climate, agriculture, and water availability are investigated, using examples from Egypt and the Central United States. …
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Functional diversity of fungal symbiont communities and the impact of biotic and abiotic factors on their composition and assembly
… less attention has been given to the response of microbial symbionts to environmental difference, the understanding of which is crucial if we are to use these important organisms for plant conservation and restoration under future stressful conditions. Because microbial symbionts deal with …
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MODELING IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT ON WATERSHED OUTPUTS IN MIDWESTERN USA
Applications of the SWAT model typically involve delineation of a watershed into subwatersheds/subbasins that are then further subdivided into hydrologic response units (HRUs) which are homogeneous areas of aggregated soil, landuse, and slope and are the smallest modeling units used within the …