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Showing 1 to 20 of 460 for “"agricultural production"”.
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Sustainability of intensified agricultural production in the Boyne catchment.
… impacts associated with the intensification of agricultural production envisaged in Food Harvest 2020. The following environmental impacts were assessed using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) modelling: Global Warming Potential, Primary Energy Use, Eutrophication Potential, Acidification Potential, …
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Essays on Organizational Form and Function in Agricultural Production Alliances
… of organizational form for industrialized swine production. Using models derived from various theories of the firm an integrated organizational form is shown to be more efficient in the long run relative to network (alliance) production. Secondly, system dynamics models are used to model …
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Analysis of Agricultural Production in Albania: Prospects for Policy Improvement
… to predict the impacts of government policies on agricultural production in Albania. The specific goal of this study is to provide some empirical estimates of the farmers' short-run supply response to government policies that effect output and input prices. Different theoretical approaches to …
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Modelling Roman agricultural production in the Middle Tiber Valley, Central Italy
This thesis analyses the potential agricultural production of the regions of South Etruria and Sabina, north of Rome in the Middle Tiber Valley, Central Italy. Historical evidence from Roman authors is combined with archaeological evidence from field survey and geographical resource data, and …
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Predicting China's Industrial and Agricultural Production From United Nations Trade Statistics
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7821217.pdf: 8279242 bytes, checksum: b1db5d17f2bd78c02a88675f337db6eb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Drought assessment of Pakistan and its impact on its agricultural production
… and their impacts on the crop yield. Crop production with comparison to yield is a more suitable and realistic variable for such an analysis because drought impacts both the crop yield and harvesting area. Agriculture is an important sector of Pakistan’s economy, so country is dependent on …
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Agricultural production, supply and institutions in the post-Civil War South.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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The Impact of Women Health Issues on Agricultural Production in Fondwa
… 85% of people in rural areas generate money from agricultural activities (IFAD, 2008). In the rural areas, men and women participate in agricultural production. However, the women play a vital role in the whole process starting from land preparation to crop sale (Gaspard, 2013). The Haitian women, …
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Three essays about the evolution and relation of SAARC countries’ agricultural production
… the evolution and relation of SAARC countries’ agricultural production. Essay 1 (discussed in Chapter 2) examines the evolution of agricultural production in three SAARC countries: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The selection of these countries is based on their agricultural economic importance …
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Gender constraints to increased agricultural production faced by rural women in KwaZulu
… these gender-specific constraints affect the agricultural productivity of these women. An integrated methodology, combining elements of qualitative observations, key-informant interviews and quantitative surveys was used to identify gender-based constraints to agricultural production …
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Impacts of great western development on agricultural production in the west of China
… study, I statistically measure the effects of agricultural input growth, technological improvements and most importantly the improvement in institutional efficiency, which is attributed to great western development. This measurement is pursued by first discussing general aspects of Chinese …
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The economic impact of global climate and tropospheric oxone on world agricultural production
… is to analyze the economic impact on agriculture production from changes in climate and tropospheric ozone, and related policy interventions. The analysis makes use of the Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, a computable general equilibrium model of the world economy and crop …
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The impact of armed conflict on agricultural production the case of Libya: 1970-2017
… long-term impacts of a recent civil war on the agricultural sector within Libya. Due to the associated destruction and market disruption, armed conflict affects the agricultural sector in complex ways including reducing future growth potential by eroding physical and environmental capital. …
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The impact of rainfall variability on agricultural production and household welfare in rural Malawi
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Consumer perceptions of and willingness to pay for lettuce from different agricultural production systems
Vertical farming is a technologically advancing agricultural production method with the potential to change the way lettuce (and other produce) is grown. However, less is known about how consumers will react to this new technology in the marketplace. In this study, we examine consumers’ perceptions …
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Utilizing Beneficial Bacterial Endophytes to Promote Switchgrass Growth in Low- input Agricultural Production Systems
… use of PsJN in a low-input switchgrass feedstock production system. Chapter three outlines differences in gene expression patterns upon bacterization, between the responsive cv. Alamo, and a non-responsive cv. Cave-in-Rock. Using EST microarrays and quantitative PCR up- and down-regulated genes …
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Population Characteristics of White-Tailed Deer During the Agricultural Production Season in Northeastern South Dakota
… economic activity for many communities. Agricultural depredation by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is considered excessive by many land operators in this area. In this study, density, home range, core area, average daily movement, activity patterns, habitat importance, and …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Agricultural Production Behavior, Renewable Natural Resources, and Welfare Dynamics
… state of affairs, the economics underpinning the production behavior of food and fiber producers and associated realized outcomes, are paramount to understand theoretically and to test empirically. In what follows, three applications are studied, each with a focus on a renewable natural resource …
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