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Review and Analysis of Alternatives for the Valorisation of Agro-Industrial Olive Oil By-Products
(MDPI, 2018)
By-products and waste from olive production (agriculture) and the olive oil industry
(mills and refineries) are an important environmental issue in Mediterranean areas. Industrial
waste and by-products contain highly ...
Nitrogen Fertilization. A Review of the Risks Associated with the Inefficiency of Its Use and Policy Responses
(MDPI, 2021)
Nitrogen (N) is a key input to food production. Nearly half of N fertilizer input is not used by crops and is lost into the environment via emission of gases or by polluting water bodies. It is essential to achieve production ...
Diversity, Disparity and Territorial Resilience in the Context of the Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Rural Areas in Southern Spain
(MDPI, 2019)
This paper analyses territorial resilience in rural Andalusia, Spain, after the impact of the recent economic crisis and identifies the factors associated with the highest recovery rates in different contexts and territories. ...
Water Markets in Spain: Performance and Challenges
(MDPI, 2015)
Law 46/1999 incorporated formal water markets into the Spanish legal and regulatory framework, allowing spot water markets and the creation of water banks. The implementation of water markets in Spain aimed at improving ...
Insuring Water Supply in Irrigated Agriculture: A Proposal for Hydrological Drought Index-Based Insurance in Spain
(MDPI, 2019)
In Mediterranean-climate regions, irrigated agriculture is especially vulnerable to the risk of hydrological drought and irrigators are particularly concerned about its negative effects. During a hydrological drought ...
A Simple Agro-Economic Model for Optimal Farm Nitrogen Application under Yield Uncertainty
(MDPI, 2021)
Farmers in the developed world tend to over-apply fertilizer, and we explore a model for decision-making under uncertainty in yields. This article proposes an agro-economic model for farmer decision-making based on subjective ...
Microeconomics of Deficit Irrigation and Subjective Water Response Function for Intensive Olive Groves
(MDPI, 2016)
Abstract
This research paper analyzes the economics of deficit irrigation based on the use of subjective estimates of the crop yield–water relationship to determine water supply in irrigated olive groves. Interviewed ...
Using Ostrom’s DPs as Fuzzy Sets to Analyse How Water Policies Challenge Community-BasedWater Governance in Colombia
(MDPI, 2017)
Ostrom’s design principles have been broadly used to analyse the governance of common
pool resources. However, they are normally assessed as present or absent. We challenge this
assumption by considering them as fuzzy ...
Building a Composite Indicator to Measure Environmental Sustainability Using Alternative Weighting Methods
(MDPI, 2020)
Environmental sustainability in agriculture can be measured through the construction of composite indicators. However, this is a challenging task because these indexes are heavily dependent on how the individual base ...
An Analysis of Irrigation Organizations in Colombia through the Prism of Collective Action
(MDPI, 2019)
The objective of this article is to deepen the knowledge of collective action in irrigation organizations in Colombia, by identifying the limitations of the members for their organizational work and the variables of context ...