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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Agriculture in a World of Uncertainty written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
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Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Agriculture in a World of Uncertainty: the Potential Impact of Rising Costs of Production on Agriculture and Rural America - a Compilation of Cost Production Data and Associated Economic Studies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 149 pages
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Download or read book Agriculture in a World of Uncertainty written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
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Download or read book Agriculture in a World of Uncertainty written by U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays out a variety of practical ways to prepare for a changing climate by paying attention to soil, water harvesting, types of crops planted, and ways to protect pollinators.
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Total Pages : 8 pages
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Download or read book World Food Uncertainty, Policy Issues for the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 149 pages
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Download or read book Agriculture in a World of Uncertainty written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Britt Moss
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814287636
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Risk, Uncertainty and the Agricultural Firm written by Charles Britt Moss and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction. 1.1. Formulating the risk problem. 1.2. Decision criteria. 1.3. Decision making under risk : fact and fiction -- 2. Probability theory - a mathematical basis for making decisions under risk and uncertainty. 2.1. Set theory and probability. 2.2. Random variables. 2.3. Conditional probability and independence. 2.4. Some useful distribution functions. 2.5. Expected value, moments, and the moment generating function. 2.6. Estimating probability functions. 2.7. Martingales and random walks. 2.8. Summary -- 3. Expected utility - the economic basis of decision making under risk. 3.1. Consumption and utility. 3.2. Expected utility. 3.3. Expected value - variance and expected utility models. 3.4. Problems with expected utility. 3.5. Summary -- 4. Risk aversion in the large and small. 4.1. Arrow-Pratt risk aversion coefficient. 4.2. Eliciting risk aversion coefficients. 4.3 Summary -- 5. Portfolio theory and decision making under risk. 5.1. The expected value - variance frontier. 5.2. A simple portfolio. 5.3. A graphical depiction of the expected value-variance frontier. 5.4. Mean-variance versus direct utility maximization. 5.5. Derivation of the expected value-variance frontier. 5.6. Summary -- 6. Whole farm-planning models. 6.1. Farm portfolio models. 6.2. Minimize total absolute deviation. 6.3. Focus-loss. 6.4. Target MOTAD. 6.5. Direct utility maximization. 6.6. Discrete sequential stochastic programming. 6.7. Chance-constrained programming. 6.8. Interpreting shadow values from risk programming models. 6.9. Summary -- 7. Risk efficiency approaches - stochastic dominance. 7.1. Stochastic dominance. 7.2. Applications of stochastic dominance. 7.3. Summary -- 8. Dynamic decision rules and the value of information. 8.1. Decision making and Bayesian probabilities. 8.2. Concepts of information. 8.3. A model of information. 8.4. Summary -- 9. Market models of decision making under risk. 9.1. Risk equilibrium from the consumer's point of view. 9.2. The role of the riskless asset. 9.3. Risk equilibrium from the firm's perspective. 9.4. Arbitrage pricing theorem. 9.5. Empirical applications of capital market models. 9.6. Summary -- 10. Option pricing approaches to risk. 10.1. Introductions to options and futures. 10.2. Real option valuation. 10.3. Crop insurance. 10.4. Summary -- 11. State contingent production model : the stochastic production set. 11.1. Depicting risk and input decisions in the production function. 11.2. State Production set and input requirement set. 11.3. Distance functions and risk aversion. 11.4. Summary -- 12. Risk, uncertainty, and the agricultural firm - a summary and outlook
Author : Alex F. McCalla
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Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Agriculture in an Interdependent and Uncertain World written by Alex F. McCalla and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Purdue University. Department of Agricultural Economics
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Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Farming in a Period of Risk and Uncertainty written by Purdue University. Department of Agricultural Economics and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jules N. Pretty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136529276
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Intensification written by Jules N. Pretty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.
Author : Sankar Kr. Acharya
Publisher : New India Publishing Agency
ISBN 13 : 8119002245
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Uncertainty And Chaos In Indian Farming written by Sankar Kr. Acharya and published by New India Publishing Agency. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian agriculture at large has been on trajectory of grand uncertainty. The brunt of climate change, sharp undulation in productivity, unpredictability in market price, the consistent up rise in cost of cultivation and downfall of net return are amounting to what we may call the grand uncertainty. Uncertainty is an inevitable character of any system where most of the contributory factors are either unpredictable or unfathomable. The higher is the complexity, the lesser would be the resilience, and higher would be the uncertainty. Agricultural production system, as it is managed in Indian condition, is the most vulnerable to a plethora of uncertainties. Mostly managed in an open air rain fed conditions, complex-diverse-risk prone, it has been exposed to weather and resource uncertainties, market volatility, poor access to technology and a fragile input delivery mechanism. Indian Agriculture is now at a crossroad and gets confronted by uncertainty and unpredictability. The growth rate of food production runs just marginally above population growth. The book has uniquely dealt with a basket of perceived uncertainties that makes farmers and economy reel under stress and risk. The world’s largest agrarian economy is being managed mostly by private land owners, who are mostly under the clutch of middlemen and vagaries of weather. The book, based on an empirical study, has indentified the marker variables of farmers in responding to and complying with the unpredictability and freaks of social dynamics.
Author : David B. Lobell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048129524
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Climate Change and Food Security written by David B. Lobell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world’s poor directly depend. But whether climate change represents a minor impediment or an existential threat to development is an area of substantial controversy, with different conclusions wrought from different methodologies and based on different data. This book aims to resolve some of the controversy by exploring and comparing the different methodologies and data that scientists use to understand climate’s effects on food security. In explains the nature of the climate threat, the ways in which crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment to help agriculture adapt to a warmer world. This broader understanding should prove useful to both scientists charged with quantifying climate threats, and policy-makers responsible for crucial decisions about how to respond. The book is especially suitable as a companion to an interdisciplinary undergraduate or graduate level class.
Author : Obed A. Wyum
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Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Risk and Uncertainty in Agriculture written by Obed A. Wyum and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.)
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ISBN 13 : 9781585762378
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Farming for Our Future written by PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.) and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is substantial--much more so than official figures suggest--and we will not be able to achieve our overall mitigation goals unless agricultural emissions sharply decline. Fortunately, farms and ranches can be a major part of the climate solution, while protecting biodiversity, strengthening rural communities, and improving the lives of the workers who cultivate our crops and rear our animals. The importance of agricultural climate solutions can not be underestimated; it is a critical element both in ensuring our food security and limiting climate change. This book provides essential solutions to address the greatest crises of our time.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264582959
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (645 download)
Download or read book OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2020-2029 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2020-2029 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, incorporating expertise from collaborating member countries and international commodity organisations. It provides market projections for national, regional and global supply and demand of major agricultural commodities, biofuel and fish.
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Total Pages : 61 pages
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Download or read book Managing Uncertainty in the World's Riskiest Business written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
