... reaching markets. Ac-cess can therefore not explain the variance in efficiency of Chinesewheat production. Market in uence (market), as a proxy for landrent indicating the investments in machinery, ... these interact with local constraints. The results of our analysis have confirmed that the factors explaining inefficiencies in production widely vary by region. Furthermore, factors explain-ing ... 2010Available online 26 March 2010Keywords:Grain productionYield gapLand managementIntensificationInefficiencyFrontier analysis abstractGlobal grain production has increased dramatically during the...
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... extents, coarse-graining transferring information with increasing grain size, and fine-graining transferring information with decreasing grain size. Sometimes, upscaling and downscaling refer specifically ... downscaling, the two steps are disaggregating information and singling out (Figure 2.1). Disaggregating coarse-grained information is to derive the detailed pattern within a spatial domain (fine-graining) ... studies in scaling and uncertainty analysis that are relevant to ecology. The series of case studies included here illustrate how scaling and uncertainty analysis are being conducted in ecology...
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