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decreasing domestic market distortions. We ask whether these reforms have led to agricultural commercialization and have improved …, commercialization has increased household nutrition. The commercialization of field crops and horticulture increases nutrition while the … commercialization of livestock does not. …
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commercialization provide alternative strategies for sustainable all-year-round household food and income availability. Applying … diversification (in terms of calorie and protein production) and commercialization on reducing malnutrition in the Eastern province of … diversification and commercialization on reducing malnutrition while GPS results show that higher degrees of diversification reduce …
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by experience; extension and credit are the major drivers of agricultural efficiency levels in Africa. …
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agriculture has encroached into marginal or fragile lands, leaving little room for the expansion of agricultural lands (Kraybill …; However, many extension programs throughout Sub-Saharan Africa have the reputation of being largely ineffective (Dejene 1989 … extension programs in Uganda and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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This paper provides evidence of the eect of agricultural diversication and commercialization on the health of preschool … children. We specically look at the impact of diversication and commercialization on stunting, wasting and underweight by using … positive eect on stunting of children at the bottom of the nutritional distribution while commercialization eects vary …
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In this paper, we develop a model of regulation for a set of heterogenous farmers whose production yields to environmental externalities. The goal of the regulator is first to offer some income support depending on collective preferences towards income redistribution and second to internalize...
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Until recently, it is hard to find studies to estimate how much the total economic losses for U.S. or other states by the BSE incidents except one dominant study by Devadoss et al (2005), which used CGE (Computable Generalized Equations) model for U.S. However, they are not reporting the direct...
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The cost of operating the Food Security Commodity Reserve as a commodity reserve was compared with the cost of a cash reserve to purchase food aid supplies only in the period of need. Preliminary simulation results reveal the cash reserve to be less costly in almost all cases.
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This paper investigates, through a dynamic stochastic adjustment model the extent to which an active agricultural policy can be the source of volatility in agricultural investment. It is shown that noise in formulation of agricultural policy has adverse effects even in cases where earlier...
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