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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three instruments of forest exploitation, the study shows how rural …
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The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world …
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This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and regulatory costs for Australia and its major trading...
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. Its recommendations seek to increase landholder confidence in natural resource planning and regulation, without …
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the WTO for Africa using a framework that explicitly incorporates issues of concern to the region, such as preference … on economic welfare and specialisation in Africa. In the static version of the GTAP model, the study finds that full … African region. Sub-Saharan Africa and, to a lesser extent, Southern Africa, are vulnerable to partial trade reforms as they …
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Privatization became a central element of economic reforms in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1990s … impact of privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1991 to 2002 in the light of recent developments, and to derive some … in privatization transactions despite some showcase transactions; fifth, regulation and competition have often been …
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reaching the target audiences have necessitated the introduction of ICT in agriculture. This article discusses the different … models related to ICT in Indian agriculture like, Kisan call centers, The Gyandoot project, Bhoomi project, Village knowledge … centers, and AGMARKNET. In the end, the article discusses the barriers and the outlook of ICT in Indian agriculture. …
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Joining the European Union club implies, among many other policy changes, full integration of Romania's economy into EU's customs union. This is expected to have significant implications for domestic farmers and food processors. The paper constructs a single-country Applied General Equilibrium...
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The author argues that conversion of over 1 million hectares of customary land to leasehold land tenure merely endowed the elite with excessive landholdings they did not fully utilise for tobacco production because it exceeded the requirement for production of the quota of tobacco output...
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