Sökning: "agricultural frontier"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 uppsatser innehållade orden agricultural frontier.

  1. 1. Assessing the Eco-efficiency of Swedish Crop Farms and the Role of Subsidies : a Directional Distance Function Approach

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Författare :Therese Ratilla; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Swedish crop farmers; CAP subsidies; FADN; stochastic frontier analysis; multi-output; one-step approach;

    Sammanfattning : The agriculture sector’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its increasing vulnerability to the effects of climate change warrants assessments considering not only on-farm productivity but also the industry’s environmental sustainability. Utilizing the concept of eco-efficiency, this study analyzes the environmental performance of Swedish crop farms by incorporating farm-level GHG emissions as an undesirable output in the production function. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Struggling to make a life in the Peruvian Amazon: A case study on the livelihood activities in the indigenous community Naranjal

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Författare :Célina Marie Scülfort; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Sustainable Development; SDGs 2; 3; 15; agriculture and forestry; rural livelihoods; indigenous communities; Peruvian Amazon; forest landscapes; smallholder farming; access to food; local knowledge;

    Sammanfattning : International climate mitigation agendas increasingly focus on the conservation of tropical forests such as the Amazon due to their high potential of sequestering large amounts of carbon. At the same time, Peru’s Amazonian frontier is increasingly subject to market pressures and other factors contributing to deforestation and the expansion of the agricultural frontier. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Sustainable Cattle Production in Brazil - The Agricultural Innovation System of Integrated Livestock Systems in Mato Grosso State

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Mads Stub Pullich; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Agricultural Innovation System; Deforestation; Sustainable Agriculture; Integrated Livestock Systems; Brazil; Mato Grosso; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : The precarious state of affairs in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, particularly in Mato Grosso, where unsustainable cattle ranching is driving the deforestation. Brazil needs to invest in sustainable development of its cattle production. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Organic Farming is Coming to Our Valley : The Development of Pumi Eco-Agriculture and the Indigenisation of Modernity in Sino-Myanmar Borderlands

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Författare :Ze Gao; [2019]
    Nyckelord :eco-agriculture; indigenisation of modernity; environmentality; traditional ecological knowledge; agricultural land use; technical practices; governance; Pumi ethnicity; rural development; highland livelihoods; borderland; post-development theory; political ecology; contemporary history; agricultural policy;

    Sammanfattning : How do indigenous people perceive and practice eco-agriculture, especially when it was introduced as a development project? This thesis aims to delve into this question by focusing on a policy-induced agrarian transition for Pumi community in Sino-Myanmar borderlands. Using ethnographic methods, I intend to offer an intimate account of a provincial programme to facilitate eco-agriculture in this ethnic region. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Whole farm technical efficiency : the case of Ethiopian smallholders: time-variant stochastic frontier model

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Författare :Astewale Bimr Melaku; [2018]
    Nyckelord :smallholder farmers; technical efficiency; time-variant; Ethiopia;

    Sammanfattning : This study uses a time-varying random-effects stochastic frontier model to estimate level of whole farm technical efficiency using 3,465 observations of sample smallholder farmers located in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nation and Nationalities (SNNP) regions of Ethiopia. A baseline econometric analysis has been done by employing Corrected Ordinary Least Square (COLS) and cross-section data models prior to the panel data model analysis as a robustness check. LÄS MER