A review of economic considerations for cover crops as a conservation practice

JS Bergtold, S Ramsey, L Maddy… - … Agriculture and Food …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Over the past few decades, farmers have increasingly integrated cover crops into their
cropping systems. Cover-crop benefits can help a farmer to achieve sustainability or reduce …

Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models

P Panagos, G Standardi, P Borrelli… - Land degradation & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Much research has been carried out on modelling soil erosion rates under different climatic
and land use conditions. Although some studies have addressed the issue of reduced crop …

An ecological perspective for analysing rural depopulation and abandonment

F Lloret, A Escudero, J Lloret… - People and Nature, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Population loss in rural areas is rapidly increasing in high‐income countries, raising
concerns and debate, given its socio‐economic consequences. Despite the evident …

Contract farming configuration: Smallholders' preferences for contract design attributes

GK Abebe, J Bijman, R Kemp, O Omta, A Tsegaye - Food Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
While Contract Farming (CF) can enhance smallholders' income in developing countries,
empirical research on the motivation of smallholders to participate in CF is scarce. This …

Using a choice experiment to account for preference heterogeneity in wetland attributes: The case of Cheimaditida wetland in Greece

E Birol, K Karousakis, P Koundouri - Ecological economics, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper aims to assist policy makers in formulating efficient and sustainable wetland
management policies in accordance with the Ramsar Convention and the European Union …

[PDF][PDF] Estimation of C factor for soil erosion modeling using NDVI in Buyukcekmece watershed

A Karaburun - Ozean Journal of applied sciences, 2010 - researchgate.net
In order to take measures in controlling soil erosion it is required to estimate soil loss over
area of interest. Soil loss due to soil erosion can be estimated using predictive models such …

Using economic valuation techniques to inform water resources management: A survey and critical appraisal of available techniques and an application

E Birol, K Karousakis, P Koundouri - Science of the total environment, 2006 - Elsevier
The need for economic analysis for the design and implementation of efficient water
resources management policies is well documented in the economics literature. This need is …

Supply chain differentiation, contract agriculture, and farmers' marketing preferences: The case of sweet pepper in Thailand

C Schipmann, M Qaim - Food policy, 2011 - Elsevier
There is an emerging body of literature analyzing how smallholder farmers in developing
countries can be linked to modern supply chains. However, most of the available studies …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall erosivity and erosivity density in Greece

P Panagos, C Ballabio, P Borrelli, K Meusburger - Catena, 2016 - Elsevier
Rainfall erosivity considers the effects of rainfall amount and intensity on soil detachment.
Rainfall erosivity is most commonly expressed as the R-factor in the Universal Soil Loss …

Modeling preference heterogeneity in stated choice data: an analysis for public goods generated by agriculture

S Colombo, N Hanley, J Louviere - Agricultural economics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Stated choice models based on the random utility framework are becoming increasingly
popular in the applied economics literature. The need to account for respondents' …