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Short food supply chains for local food: a difficult path
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Agri-food globalization is having a serious adverse impact on small- and medium-sized family
farms in the province of Málaga (southern Spain), 43% of which have disappeared over the
last 10 years. Short food supply chains ...
Willingness to pay for improved irrigation water supply reliability: An approach based on probability density functions
(Elsevier, 2019)
In irrigated agricultural systems, a major source of uncertainty relates to water supply, as it significantly affects farm income. This paper investigates farmers’ utility changes associated with shifts in the probability ...
Optimal design of agri-environmental schemes under asymmetric information for improving farmland biodiversity
(Wiley, 2018)
Information asymmetry is one of the main obstacles to the effective design and implementation of agri-environmental schemes (AES). The literature has generally addressed this issue through the use of principal-agent models ...
Diseño de un seguro indexado para la cobertura del riesgo de sequía hidrológica en la agricultura de regadíoDesign of an index-based insurance for hedging the risk of hydrological drought in irrigated agriculture
(Universidad de Jaén, 2019)
In Spain, irrigated agriculture is especially vulnerable to the risk of hydrological drought. In practice, this circumstance implies that sometimes the water allotments received by farmers are insufficient to meet crops ...