Alex Winter-Nelson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define or redefine 10 of the most common environmental terms, including natural environment and environmental change, on the basis of what is meant by natural as reflected by common usage and dictionary entries and define three degradation terms, environmental degradation, land degradation, and soil degradation, as any change or disturbance to the environment, land, or soil perceived to be deleterious or undesirable.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple Social Cost-Benefit (SCB) ratio is used to measure social profitability in the context of domestic resource cost, which does not distort profitability rankings.

TL;DR: Examination of the acceptance of provitamin A-biofortified maize through taste tests and a trading experiment conducted in Maputo, Mozambique suggests that existing preferences for white maize do not preclude acceptance of orange, biofortified varieties and that prov vitamins A and B may be a self-targeting nutritional intervention.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between circular labor migration and agricultural production was investigated by comparing the technical efficiency of farms that supply migrant laborers with farms that do not, and conclusions concerning the likely impact of changing migration patterns on the agricultural sector were drawn.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated epidemiological-economic model was used to capture the dynamic and spatial effects of animal disease outbreaks in the Southern Cone of South America, and the results demonstrate the benefits of spatially sensitive policies in which certain regions within the southern Cone employ different, coordinated interventions.