Data on agricultural and natural resource management typically have spatial patterns related to the landscapes from which they came. Consequently, econometric models designed to explain the determinants of humans’ natural resource management practices or their outcomes often have spatial structure that can bring bias or inefficiency to parameter estimates. Although econometric tools are availab...

In this study a Social Accounting Matrix approach is used to analyse the effects of changes in agricultural policies on income distribution. Increasing final demand for agricultural products, and a reduction in agricultural price supports, will produce greater proportional benefits for the poorer households, although these benefits are small. A 6% reduction in agricultural price supports result...

As China enlarged the investment in agriculture, the agricultural scientific instruments promoted rapidly. It required us to face the questions scientifically such as the procurement, management, resources sharing, evaluation and etc. in agricultural scientific instruments. Because of the lack of unified classification and code standards, it greatly limited the scientific procurement, efficient...

This study examined the effects of agricultural runoff on the vegetation structure of Franklin Bog, a priority conservation area located in a rapidly developing region of northwestern Vermont. Forested and agricultural runoff from the mixed land use watershed created differential vegetation patterns in the wetland, including weedy species introductions. Concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus...

Appendix 2 Social Accounting Matrices The archetypes were built on the basis of aggregate information for a set of low income food importing countries in the three continents, and social structure coming from Social Accounting Matrices from Kenya for the Africa Archetype, Sri Lanka for the Asia archetype, and Ecuador for the Latin America archetype. The Africa archetype is based on aggregate in...