There is evidence that cover crops can bring both environmental and yield benefits to a farm
operation, yet according to the USDA's Census of Agriculture, in 2012 less than 5% of the …

Water is considered the most critical resource for sustainable agricultural development
worldwide. Water scarcity has become an issue, especially in arid and semi-arid areas …

This paper quantifies the importance of production risk and technical efficiency as two
possible sources of production variability in German organic and conventional farming …

The inclusion of cover crops in cropping systems brings direct and indirect costs and
benefits. Farmers will adopt and utilize cover crops as long as the perceived benefit of using …

Core Ideas Investment into no‐till reduces risk. Risk averse producers prefer no‐till over
tillage. Cover crops increased risk compared to no cover crops. Upland cotton (Gossypium …

Technical efficiency (TE) measures the ability of the farmer to obtain maximum outputs from
a given combination of inputs. Stochastic frontier production function analysis (SFA) was …

In Vietnam, most households that are allotted rights to mangrove forests are allowed to
convert forestland into surface water to build mixed mangrove-shrimp farming systems. One …

This study models technical efficiency with production risk in inputs. Data from a total of 64
fish farms randomly sampled from Oyo State, Nigeria, were used for the analysis. The study …

Tilapia is a fast-growing fish that has huge potential for production in Bangladesh. Despite
the impressive growth of the industry, production is highly volatile across farms and …

Core Ideas Net returns were higher for conventional tillage than no‐tillage without cover
crops. Net returns were higher for no‐tillage than conventional tillage with cover crops. A …