Precision agriculture: technology and economic perspectives
In: Progress in precision agriculture
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In: Progress in precision agriculture
In: World development perspectives, Band 10-12, S. 44-50
ISSN: 2452-2929
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 86, S. 399-405
ISSN: 0264-8377
International audience ; AbstractThe growing global demand for food poses a serious challenge to mankind: How can we provide an increasing world population with an adequate, reliable and nutritious food supply? We argue that this can best be achieved through the utilization of biodiversity and the inclusion of marginal arable lands for agricultural production, while maintaining a broad gene pool to secure the potential for future plant production and supporting rural agricultural communities. We present several specific examples of how an emphasis on agricultural biodiversity can provide the basis for a nutritional, reliable, culinary and sustainable food production, and analyse the advantages, limitations and risks of an increased focus on agrobiodiversity. We conclude that the potential for approaches based on the preservation and development of existing agrobiodiversity has not been given sufficient attention in the current scientific and political debates concerning the best strategy to keep pace with global population growth and increasing demand for food. An emphasis on agrobiodiversity is the basis for the most appropriate strategies if the goal is to feed the world in the twenty-first century.
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 64, S. 815-827
In: Pedersen , S M , Bizik , J , Costa , L D , Coutinho , J , Dolezal , F & Gluska , A 2005 ' Potato production in Europe - a gross margin analysis ' Fødevareøkonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet , Frederiksberg , pp. 1-39 .
The purpose of this paper is to examine different cropping practices, cost structures and gross margins for producing conventional table potatoes in 6 different regions within the European Union: Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia. Findings from this study show that potato cropping practices varies signifi-cantly between these countries with major differences in yields and costs. Italy and Denmark are the two regions with highest gross margins due to high yields and reve-nues. Poland is by far the largest potato producing country among the 6 countries ex-amined in this study. However, the production is primarily based on small scale farm-ing with low yields and low economic revenues.
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In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 213-225
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: Computers and electronics in agriculture: COMPAG online ; an international journal, Band 77, Heft 1, S. 7-20
In: Lowenberg-DeBoer , J , Behrendt , K , Ehlers , M-H , Dillon , C , Gabriel , A , Huang , I Y , Kumwenda , I , Mark , T , Meyer-Aurich , A , Milics , G , Olagunju , K O , Pedersen , S M , Shockley , J & Rose , D 2022 , ' Lessons to be learned in adoption of autonomous equipment for field crops ' , Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy , vol. 44 , no. 2 , pp. 848-864 . https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13177
Autonomous equipment for crop production is on the verge of technical and economic feasibility, but government regulation may slow its adoption. Key regulatory issues include requirements for on-site human supervision, liability for autonomous machine error, and intellectual property in robotic learning. As an example of the impact of regulation on the economic benefits of autonomous crop equipment, analysis from the United Kingdom suggests that requiring 100% on-site human supervision almost wipes out the economic benefits of autonomous crop equipment for small and medium farms and increases the economies-of-scale advantage of larger farms.
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In: Applied economic perspectives and policy, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 848-864
ISSN: 2040-5804
AbstractAutonomous equipment for crop production is on the verge of technical and economic feasibility, but government regulation may slow its adoption. Key regulatory issues include requirements for on‐site human supervision, liability for autonomous machine error, and intellectual property in robotic learning. As an example of the impact of regulation on the economic benefits of autonomous crop equipment, analysis from the United Kingdom suggests that requiring 100% on‐site human supervision almost wipes out the economic benefits of autonomous crop equipment for small and medium farms and increases the economies‐of‐scale advantage of larger farms.