scholarly journals Watershed-Scale Economic and Environmental Tradeoffs Incorporating Risks: A Target MOTAD Approach

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeyuan Qiu ◽  
Tony Prato ◽  
Michael Kaylen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Nitrogen Concentration ◽  
Risk Preference ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Random Allocation ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
Storm Events ◽  
Creek Watershed

This paper evaluates the economic and environmental tradeoffs at watershed scale by incorporating both economic and environmental risks in agricultural production. The Target MOTAD model is modified by imposing a probability-constrained objective function to capture the yield uncertainty caused by random allocation of farming systems to soil types and by introducing environmental targets to incorporate environmental risk due to random storm events. This framework is used to determine the tradeoff frontier between watershed net return and sediment yield and nitrogen concentration in runoff in Goodwater Creek watershed, Missouri. The frontier is significantly affected by environmental risk preference.

Sustainable Management of Environmental Risks in Agricultural Production: Ensuring the Right to Food

Global Jurist ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Freddy Milian Gómez ◽  
Yanelys Delgado Triana
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Food Material ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
The Right

Abstract The current research is about the sustainable management of environmental risks in agricultural production to ensure the right to food. In a globalized world, agricultural production is determined by external economic, environmental, social, legal, and political factors, as well as internal factors depending on each State’s conditions. Environmental risk factors, particularly, the growing climate change and its negative effects or the occurrence of a global pandemic, restrict agricultural industry development and create uncertainty in guaranteeing people’s right to food. Agricultural production is the first right to food material guarantee. Ensuring agricultural production is ensuring people’s right to food, their food security or at least the minimum necessary to avoid hunger. The aim is to systematize environmental risks sustainable management concepts and characteristics applied in agricultural production to guarantee the right to food. The environmental risk’s sustainable management entails an efficient use of financial and economic resources in agricultural production to prevent or reduce the environmental risk identified impact. The research establishes some general points of environmental risks sustainable management in agricultural production to guarantee the right to adequate food. The following research methods and techniques were selected: the theoretical-legal and document analysis.

Hydrogeological constraints on riparian buffers for reduction of diffuse pollution: examples from the Bear Creek watershed in Iowa, USA

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 61-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.W. Simpkins ◽  
T.R. Wineland ◽  
R.J. Andress ◽  
D.A. Johnston ◽  
G.C. Caron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Flow System ◽  
Shallow Groundwater ◽  
Riparian Buffers ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
Riparian Management ◽  
Crop Fields ◽  
Creek Watershed ◽  
Midwestern Usa ◽  
Bear Creek

Riparian Management Systems (RiMS) have been proposed to minimize the impacts of agricultural production and improve water quality in Iowa in the Midwestern USA. As part of RiMS, multi-species riparian buffers have been shown to decrease nutrient, pesticide, and sediment concentrations in runoff from adjacent crop fields. However, their effect on nutrients and pesticides moving in groundwater beneath buffers has been discussed only in limited and idealized hydrogeologic settings. Studies in the Bear Creek watershed of central Iowa show the variability inherent in hydrogeologic systems at the watershed scale, some of which may be favorable or unfavorable to future implementation of buffers. Buffers may be optimized by choosing hydrogeologic systems where a shallow groundwater flow system channels water directly through the riparian buffer at velocities that allow for processes such as denitrification to occur.

scholarly journals Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Laborde ◽  
Abdullah Mamun ◽  
Will Martin ◽  
Valeria Piñeiro ◽  
Rob Vos
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Consumer Prices ◽  
High Emission ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Emissions

AbstractAgricultural production is strongly affected by and a major contributor to climate change. Agriculture and land-use change account for a quarter of total global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture receives around US$600 billion per year worldwide in government support. No rigorous quantification of the impact of this support on GHG emissions has been available. This article helps fill the void. Here, we find that, while over the years the government support has incentivized the development of high-emission farming systems, at present, the support only has a small impact in terms of inducing additional global GHG emissions from agricultural production; partly because support is not systematically biased towards high-emission products, and partly because support generated by trade protection reduces demand for some high-emission products by raising their consumer prices. Substantially reducing GHG emissions from agriculture while safeguarding food security requires a more comprehensive revamping of existing support to agriculture and food consumption.

The Contributions of Legumes to Reducing the Environmental Risk of Agricultural Production

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark B. Peoples ◽  
Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen ◽  
Olivier Huguenin-Elie ◽  
Erik Steen Jensen ◽  
Eric Justes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Agricultural Production

scholarly journals Canterbury farming: production, processing and farming systems

2010 ◽  
pp. IX-VIII ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Dynes ◽  
V.T. Burggraaf ◽  
C.G. Goulter ◽  
D.E. Dalley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Regional Council

Canterbury is of great significance to New Zealand's agricultural production, with approximately 20% of its farmland. The Region is the largest in New Zealand (by Regional Council boundaries), with 3 m ha of agricultural and exotic forestry land.

Limitations and Impacts of Agricultural Production on the Savanna Belt: the Nigerian Case

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chijioke C. Onyebuchi
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
Nigerian Savanna

It is not enough simply to identify the limiting factors to agricultural production, supply the appropriate inputs and then expect to be able to meet food demands. It is essential also to protect the environment in which food is grown, especially in areas of fragile ecosystems and harsh climatic conditions, in order to ensure both increased production and stability of the production base. In the Nigerian savanna belt, traditional and mechanized large-scale farming systems are both practised, and they combine with unfavourable climatic conditions to exert a strong negative impact on the environment. Here, these interactions are examined and the case is made for incorporating fundamental ecological principles and concepts of sustainability into farming systems, in Nigeria and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Groundwater monitoring at the watershed scale: An evaluation of recharge and nonpoint source pollutant loading in the Clear Creek Watershed, Iowa

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith E. Schilling ◽  
Matthew T. Streeter ◽  
E. Arthur Bettis ◽  
Christopher G. Wilson ◽  
Athanasios N. Papanicolaou
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Monitoring ◽  
Nonpoint Source ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
Pollutant Loading ◽  
Creek Watershed

GIS and Remote Sensing in Environmental Risk Assessment

2011 ◽  
pp. 840-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Mara Chen
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Environmental Risk Assessment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Gis And Remote Sensing ◽  
Risk Assessment And Management

The existence, well-being, and sustainable development of the global economy hinges upon the state of the earth’s environment. Effective environmental risk assessment and management issues have become increasingly important. With the ever-growing global population and expanding economic development, we consume more natural resources, produce more waste, and develop more areas into the regions that are prone to environmental risks. Although humans have interacted with the environment for thousands of years, environmental risk assessment and management is only a recent research undertaking. As the industrialization has made the human-environment interactions more dynamic and complex, the increased environmental risks have propelled and compelled people to use technologies for identifying and solving problems. The earliest global environmental applications of remote sensing and GIS technologies began in the 1960s, particularly marked by the successful launch of the TIROS- 1, the first meteorological satellite, and the development of computer-based geographic information systems (GIS). The story Silent Spring (Carson, 1962) awoke the public’s environmental consciousness and promoted the public demands for governments to set up environmental protection policies and research priorities. The birth of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 set the stage for modern environment risk assessment. The launch of the LANDSAT program in 1972 created a new way for monitoring global land use and land cover changes (Foley, 1999; Goward, Masek, Williams, Irons, & Thompson, 2001).

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