It is expected that biodiesel production in the EU will remain the dominant contributor as part of a 10% minimum binding target for biofuel in transportation fuel by 2020 within the 20% renewable energy target in the overall EU energy mix. Life cycle assessments (LCA) of biodiesel to evaluate its environmental impacts have, however, remained questionable, mainly because of the adoption of a tra...

Understanding the relationship between land use and surface water quality is necessary for effective water management. We estimated the impacts of catchment-wide land use on water quality during the dry and rainy seasons in the Dongjiang River basin, using remote sensing, geographic information systems and multivariate statistical techniques. The results showed that the 83 sites can be divided ...

this study aimed to analyze and modeling of energy and performance of dryland chickpea adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system utilizes (anfis) in dryland chickpea production is done in the city of bukan. data were collected from 70 producers of chickpeas using face to face interviews with farmers and completing the questionnaire specialized. size of land was between 2 and 10 hectares. input fact...

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The Ghana cocoa market has been extensively liberalised over the period since the mid 1980s. Three issues have been prominent in microeconomic research on the effects of liberalisation on agriculture. The first has been the size of any supply response, the second has been the effect on producers of reduced subsidies on inputs, and the third whether innovation has occurred. In this paper we inve...

High-precision land-cover-land-use GIS mapping was performed in four major townships in Maine’s Aroostook River Valley, using on-screen digitization and direct interpretation of very high spatial resolution satellite multispectral imagery (15–60 cm) and high spatial resolution LiDAR data (2 m) and the field mapping method. The project not only provides the first-ever high-precision land-use map...

The paper looks at the contribution of the market sector to changes in Japan’s living standards over the years 1955-2003. Initially, a conventional Total Factor Productivity growth approach is taken where TFP growth is measured as year to year Fisher gross output growth divided by Fisher primary input growth. The slowdown in Japan’s TFP performance in the post bubble period is documented. The p...