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Agricultural and Forestry Land and Labor Use under Long-Term Climate Change in Chile
(2021)
The appropriate design of land-use and rural employment policies depends upon the anticipated performance of the farm sector in the context of expected climate changes, especially with respect to land allocations to potential ...
Chapter 6. Land management through conservation agriculture and associated practices
(CAB International, 2022)
Farm size and land use efficiency in the Brazilian Amazon
(2020)
This paper investigates the relationship between farm size and land use efficiency in the Brazilian Amazon. Based on data from the 2006 Brazilian Agricultural Census, we estimated a stochastic production frontier model ...
Biofuels and biodiversity: Challenges and opportunities
(Elsevier, 2015-07)
The use of biofuels can result on a decrease of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when compared to fossil fuels. However, the expansion of biofuels crops has been either based on direct or indirect displacement of natural ...
Drivers of agricultural land - use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions
(2018-02)
Agricultural expansion and intensification in South America's dry forests and grasslands increase agricultural production, but also result in major environmental trade-offs. The Pampas and Chaco regions of Argentina have ...
Modeling economic-environmental decision making for agricultural land use in Argentinean Pampas
(2016-03)
This research evaluates the economic and environmental impacts of land allocation to crops and extensive livestock production in the Argentine Pampas using compromise programming. Two economic indicators (gross margin, ...