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(2009-10)Illinois faces a legally de ned quota for the amount of water that it is allowed to pump from Lake Michigan. Separately, in Northeastern Illinois, the ground water level has fallen due to pumping pressure. Together, these ...
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(2010-01-06)In 1996, genetically modified corn was commercially available for the first time. Since then, seed technology companies have introduced new genetically modified hybrids, including ―stacked trait hybrids‖ containing multiple ...
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(2010-01-06)Two effects simultaneously shape the future soybean meal (SBM) demand in China: the income effect on meat consumption and the transition effect on feed usage in animal production. The income effect has been studied intensively ...
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(2010-05-19)The International Energy Agency states that the world will need at last 50 percent more energy by 2020 (Thongbai et. al. 2006). This problem is especially acute in Sub- Saharan Africa. This region faces especially great ...
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(2010-06-22)Following the commodity price shocks in 2007, anecdotal evidence shows that tenant farmers experienced large increases in cropland rental rates and input prices. However, it is unclear how residual profits (crop revenue ...
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(2010-08-20)As global demand for food, fuel, and energy resources rise and concerns about climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels become more pressing; demand for renewable energy projects has grown. Thanks to related scientific ...
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(2010-08-20)The basic redistricting problem is defined as aggregating a set of base (indivisible) units into contiguous geographical areas with almost equal voter population, called districts, and districts into a district plan. The ...
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(2010-08-20)Little research has focused on understanding how crop insurance and preharvest pricing interact so as to reduce risk or increase returns more than either if used separately. Farm-level historical simulations from 1976 ...
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(2010-08-20)In this thesis, I ask whether the Program of Direct Support for the Countryside (PROCAMPO) helped Mexican agricultural producers benefit from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Specifically, I explore the ...
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(2011-01-14)The Essential Air Service (EAS) program was established in 1978 to guarantee air connectivity for residents of small communities to the national air transportation system. Currently, over half of EAS communities are within ...
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(2011-01-21)Concerns about national energy security and climate change have recently increased interest in renewable bioenergy. Specifically, the market for perennial grasses and agricultural residue for combustion for heat and ...
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(2011-05-25)Deep global poverty persists despite decades of coordinated development efforts seeking to eradicate it. Recent literature has taken a new approach to defining the underlying mechanisms of lasting poverty in terms of asset ...
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(2011-08-25)Biofuels are meant to be an environmental friendly alternative for the use of fossil fuels. This idea led to the use of subsidies in order to support their production and use. In the USA, the EPA is in charge of establishing ...
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(2011-08-25)Competing demands for scarce water resources have led to conflict in semi-arid and arid regions. Such conflicts often involve the need to restrict the use of groundwater pumping in irrigated agriculture in order to leave ...
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(2011-08-25)Technology development for production methods of new varieties and for disease control has been widely explored throughout agriculture including the apple industry. Recent progress has been made to fight against apple ...
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