Quantifying Farmer Adoption Intensity for Weed Resistance Management Practices and Its Determinants

Given the importance of adopting weed resistance management BMPs, it is important to develop methods to compare BMP adoption among farms and to identify factors that affect BMP adoption.

Recalibrating the Reported Rates of Return to Food and Agricultural R&D

The purpose of this research was to reexamine past estimates of the rates of return to food and agricultural R&D in light of the MIRR to see if a similar pattern emerges across the literature.

Agricultural Production, Productivity and R&D over the Past Half Century: An Emerging New World Order

Recent trends in farm productivity and food prices raise concerns about whether the era of global agricultural abundance is over.

Agricultural Production, Productivity and R&D over the Past Half Century: An Emerging New World Order

Recent trends in farm productivity and food prices raise concerns about whether the era of global agricultural abundance is over.

Agricultural R&D, Productivity and Global Food Security (PowerPoint)

Valuing Monitoring Networks for Invasive Species: The Case of Soybean Rust

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the benefits of the soybean rust monitoring network to producers and to determine how this value changes as producers become more aware of the true risk of inf

Soil Functional Capacity Classification Map of the World

Soil Functional Capacity Classification Map of the World

Mapping the global extent of soil constraints to crop growth can play an important role in developing strategies for agricultural production, environmental protection, and sustainable development at regional and global scales.

Generating Global Crop Distribution Maps: From Census to Grid

In order to evaluate food security, technology potential and the environmental impacts of production in a strategic and regional context, it is critical to have reliable information on the spatial distribution and coincidence of people, agricultural production, and environmental services.

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