The linear approximation strategy is not without limitations

In a stylized story of green revolutions, improvements in agricultural technology are achieved through the introduction of improved land management techniques or improved inputs, including germplasm and fertilizer, all of which boost yields and labor productivity . If food is relatively non-tradable beyond local markets, then increased staple food production leads to reduced food prices, …

Focusing on agricultural biotechnology scientists brings with it a number of advantages

For these commodities, the Domestic and Full changes from reference are therefore most similar. Indeed for Corn in particular, the inclusion of even spatially heterogenous, direction varying impacts across the entire world versus only in the U.S. makes very little difference in the physical output variables of GCAM considered: area, production, and endogenous yield. It is primarily …

Pena shows that border enforcement is negatively associated with agricultural worker migration specifically

These efforts to manage groundwater supply and groundwater quality make the agricultural community subject to an evolving set of new requirements for documentation of key farm activities, training, practice improvement, monitoring and reporting. This will be a significant and in some cases expensive shift in farming practices. It is without parallel in California’s agricultural history. …

Switch grass also had poor stand establishment when compared to other grasses

Countries may provide more subsidies if the political accommodations that they buy are especially valuable. Indeed, Table 1 suggests that subsidies are more likely to occur in countries with a major reserve or in authoritarian countries, such as Iran or Venezuela.This research aims to explain the impact of the introduction of bio-fuels on fuel markets …

The challenges facing the Air Resources Board are not completely uncharted

Livestock production is the agricultural sub-sector with the highest emissions and in turn with the highest potential for mitigation finding. It uses approximately 37% of the state’s agricultural land finding, and it generated 61% of California’s agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in 2009. The remaining 63% of agricultural land is used for field, fruit and nut …

It is likely that some of these rodents survive baiting by consuming a sub-lethal dose

The higher incidence in the western states may suggest that workers in this region are at higher risk of drift exposure; however, it may also have resulted from better case identification in California and Washington states through their higher staffed surveillance programs, extensive use of workers’ compensation reports in these states, and use of active surveillance …

The 20th century brought significant changes to the economics of global agriculture

Beginning in the 1970s, economic researchers began to study the potential impacts of bans on the use of sub-therapeutic antibiotics on the pork, poultry, and beef sectors and on U.S. consumers, but there has been little study of how heterogeneity impacts antibiotic use, and in turn, how it impacts returns to using antibiotics in U.S. …

We use digital agriculture for its semantic breadth and increasing currency

The ‘urbanization of hinterland’ requires the ability to observe, interpret, and manage processes of extended urbanization from zones of concentration. We then “bring information back in” by introducing a more materialist analysis of the role of information in global capitalist space, which centers on computation capital: the infrastructure necessary to transport and make legible enormous amounts …

The process of carbon sequestration can be accelerated by coconut plantation and inter crop management

Based on a field study, Kumar et al.reported that the presence or absence of over-canopy had little effect on the rhizome yield of galangal , a medicinal plant, implying its shade tolerance.Being a shade-tolerant crop, galangal yield remained steady across a wide range of light availability conditions, from full light to a photosynthetic photon flux density as low …

Most stakeholders interviewed in this study share a demand for applying AI to agriculture

Agricultural farms are extremely pressed to get a rewarding return on their investments which leads to, at times of the year with high workload, farmers not getting much sleep at all.This is confirmed by a farmer who says that since he works so much, some hours are nearly unpaid.Implementing AI in agriculture could potentially mitigate …