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The Economics of Agricultural Chemical Use in Prairie Agriculture: Productivity and Environmental Impacts
Download1994
Fantino, Alberto A., Veeman, Terry S.
The use of agricultural chemicals, particularly in crop production, has increased greatly in the prairie region of Western Canada. Pesticide use, chiefly the use of herbicides, increased 7.6 percent per year from 1948 to 1991, slowing down only after 1985 with depressed conditions in the grain...
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2000
Watson, David, Boxall, Peter C., Miller, Jamie, Unterschultz, Jim
The effects of grazing cattle in many riparian areas have greatly affected the associated landscapes over the past 50 years. The riparian areas of streams and rivers provide numerous ecological services, and it has been demonstrated that cattle grazing can disrupt this zone, negatively affecting...
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The Effect of Choice Environment and Task Demands on Consumer Behavior: Discriminating Between Contribution and Confusion
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Swait, Joffre, Adamowicz, Wiktor
Choices, whether they are made in actual markets (revealed preferences or RP) or in surveys (stated preference of SP), provide information about the preferences of individuals. These choices also contain what researchers interpret as \"noise\" or unexplained variation; a variety of techniques...
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The Effects of Alternative Agriculture and Fair Trade on the Development of Producer Groups and Their Members: Case Studies from Northern Thailand
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Adamowicz, Wiktor, Renner, Miriam
This study examines the economic, social and environmental effects of alternative agricultural methods, traded through fair trade mechanisms, on producers in northern Thailand. These effects are compared with those of conventional agriculture and practised on the same farm). The chosen research...
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2023-01-01
This research examines the effectiveness of the Empowered World View (EVW) program in Kigoma and Iringa regions of Tanzania, focusing on reducing child stunting. The program aimed to empower women and safeguard maternal care and nutrition, promoting positive cultural behaviors to protect the...
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2023-01-01
Tanaka, Henrique Rafael Barboza Costa
This paper analyses the relationship between macroeconomic variables (gross domestic product, unemployment rate, public debt and balance of international investments) and credit risk, measured as non-performing loans—or credit default. This study uses quarterly data for macroeconomic variables...
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The Incorporation of Nontimber Goods and Services in Integrated Resource Management. I. An Introduction to the Alberta Moose Hunting Study Interim Project Report
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Louviere, Jordan J., Williams, Michael, Boxall, Peter C., McLeod, Kristine, Adamowicz, Wiktor
Although participation in recreational hunting has been declining in Alberta throughout the mid 1980s and early 1990s, participation in moose hunting appears to have remained stable until about 1990 (Figure 1). The reasons for this comparative stability and the recent decline in participation are...
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1992
Lewbel (1989) offered a demand model which nested both the indirect translog (ITL) of Christensen, Jorgensen, and Lau (1977) and almost ideal demand system (AIDS) of Deaton and Muellbauer (1980a, 1980b). It has the advantage, then of allowing the applied demand analyst to test the restrictions...
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The Land is Waiting: Looking for Movements Toward Indigenous-led Conservation in Northern Alberta
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This paper demonstrates the increasing recognition and need for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) in Canada, for reasons related to biodiversity protection, reconciliation, and cultural connection. While awareness of this need is increasing at a national level, this paper questions...