Water shortage crisis is an issue that has led to drastic changes in different agricultural policies, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. Uncertainty in the amount of resources, e.g. water, used for agricultural production entails risk for farmers' income and cropping pattern changes. In the present study, the robust optimization model was used for optimal allocation of arable lands of Khor...

The carambola fruit fly, Bactrocera carambolae, is a tephritid native to Asia that has invaded South America through small-scale trade of fruits from Indonesia. The economic losses associated with biological invasions of other fruit flies around the world and the polyphagous behaviour of B. carambolae have prompted much concern among government agencies and farmers with the potential spread of ...

The first part of this paper presents a methodology on crop acreage estimations using the MODIS 16-day composite NDVI product. Particular emphasis is placed on a good quality crop mask and a good quality validation dataset. A novel approach which is based on the sampling of pure fields has been developed. The novel approach has been tested in previous work using a traditional maximum likelihood...

Using a unique combination of datasets and estimation techniques, we test whether private lease negotiations to extract oil natural gas exhibit features Coasian efficiency. We demonstrate that measures wealth (including income, house square footage, land acreage), typically determinants willingness pay for environmental quality, do affect bargaining outcomes. However, race, ethnicity, language ...

ordered probit model was employed to investigate the factors affecting access to credit, allocated by iran agricultural bank to the needy in kohgilouieh and boirahmad province. based on the received credits, farmers were divided into five groups and the model estimated for these groups. the required data were collected by filling up of a number of 198 questionnaires by farmers in kohgilouieh an...