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Even some conservative outlets, like the National Review, uncritically cite the EWG’s online farm subsidy database that tracks government payments to “Fortune 500 companies.” In reality, the Environmental Working Group is a cauldron where many of the worst pseudoscience smear campaigns are cooked...
Moreover, alongside the logarithm of the amount of payments received by farmers, we also include in the model specification the share of Pillar I subsidies as a percentage of the farm's gross value added. While most studies rely on the nominal amount of subsidy payments (see Minviel and La...
The study employed a survey questionnaire to collect data from the target population. The sample size was determined through a power analysis to ensure sufficient statistical power for the analysis. A total of 727 potential respondents' responses were analyzed using SmartPLS (4.0) to perform ...
subsidy programme that has formed the pillar of Egypt’s food policy and social safety net for several decades, though this programme has recently been reformed to improve targeting towards vulnerable groups13,37,38. However, other food group prices are also lower, probably explained by the ...
(Mills et al., 2011). They can include opportunities for learning, mobilising resources, increased visibility and lobbying power. Social status and the respective peer group may make AES more or less culturally acceptable for the individual farmer, which means that “structuring subsidy schemes to ...
a general PV duty for all rooftops, or differentiations of subsidy levels for different renewable technologies. No-regret and possibly also low-regret measures that can avoid potential environmental trade-offs should be identified and implemented. Possible starting points for this may include environment...
For empirical implementation, Irish beef farm data from 2000 to 2011, obtained from the Teagasc National Farm Survey (NFS), were used. Results suggest that substitution possibilities are limited in Irish beef farms. The lack or limited substitution possibilities between types of feed suggests that ...
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open the door for to future integration of carbon removals into the EU’s emission trading scheme, which should be avoided for various reasons. As an alternative, member states should consider targeted subsidy schemes and regulatory instruments to navigate these challenges in carbon farming effectively...