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Economics of pesticides, sustainable food production, and organic food markets /

Economic assessment of sustainable agricultural practices has continued to mature and to add to our understanding of how we might design policies to ensure an adequate and diverse food supply. This volume presents some of the recent developments and applications in this field and is much more nearly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hall, Darwin C. (Editor ), Moffitt, L. Joe (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Feb. 2002.
Colección:Advances in the economics of environmental resources ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Organic farming development in Europe impacts of regulation and institutional diversity / Johannes Michelsen
  • Entry and exit in California's organic farming sector / Karen Klonsky, Martin D. Smith
  • Organic farming policy in the European Union / Susanne Padel, Nicolas H. Lampkin, Stephan Dabbert, Carolyn Foster
  • Does it make sense to buy locally produced organic products? / David Vanzetti, Els Wynen
  • The impacts of allocation strategies for spatially regulated chemical use / Lori Lynch, Janet Carpenter
  • Modeling for pesticide productivity measurement / Darwin C. Hall, L. Joe Moffitt
  • Pesticide avoidance: Results from a Sri Lankan study with health policy implications / Clevo Wilson
  • A comparison of policies to reduce pesticide poisoning combining economic and toxicological data / David Sunding, Joshua Zivin
  • Adoption and diffusion of sustainable food technology and policy / Darwin C. Hall, L. Joe Moffitt
  • Induced innovation and the economics of herbicide use / Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, Yvan Pho
  • Alternative specifications and extensions of the economic threshold concept and the control of livestock pests / Rex Davis, Clement A. Tisdell
  • The influence of pest management advice on pesticide use in California tomatoes / Uwe-Carsten Wiebers, Mark Metcalfe, David Zilberman.