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Brazilian Economy : Recent Evolution and New Perspectives for South-South Cooperation
Maria Lúcia L.M. Pádua Lima - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The paper begins by analysing the Brazilian economic development stressing the external sector of its economy. Brazil is already an important product player in food trade and could be, in the future, a very significant player in the international commerce of biofuel and bioproducts. For this...
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Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile Phones on Indian Agriculture
Mittal, Surabhi; Gandhi, Sanjay; Tripathi, Gaurav - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
explore this topic : What kind of information do farmers value the most to improve agricultural productivity? Do mobile phones … timeliness and trustworthiness are the three important features that have to be ensured to enable farmers to use it effectively … significant improvements in supporting infrastructure and capacity building amongst farmers to enable them to use the information …
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The Evolution of Rice Production Practices
Bautista, Eulito U.; Javier, Evelyn F. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Filipino farmers, which have to change the manner by which production and postharvest operations have to be done in order to …-Green Revolution period from 1989 to the present times. As varieties changed over time, farmers practices also changed to attain … crop per year and field operations were not necessarily done efficiently, farmers were already looking for better …
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Pattern of Agricultural Diversification in India
Jha, Brajesh; Kumar, Nitesh; Mohanty, Biswajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Agricultural diversification as measured by increase in the percent of non-food crops has grown; whereas diversification as measured by the concentration indices has remained unchanged in the recent decade. There have been significant changes in the pattern of agricultural diversification at the...
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Assessing the Impact of International Natural Resource Management Research - The Case of Zero Tillage in India’s Rice-Wheat Systems
Laxmi, Vijay; Erenstein, Olaf - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
A conservative ex-ante assessment of supply-shift gains alone (excluding social and environmental gains), shows that the investment in zero tillage (ZT) R&D by the Rice-Wheat Consortium and CIMMYT was highly beneficial with a benefit-cost ratio of 39, a net present value of US$ 94 million and an...
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The Food-Feed-Fuel Triangle : Implications of Corn-based Ethanol for Grain-Use Competition
Banerjee, Arindam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The contemporary world is witnessing certain critical changes in the domain of grain utilization. With the ongoing efforts to substitute fossil fuels with bio-fuels, there has been a rise in the importance of fuel-use of cereals. This adds a new dimension to the food-feed competition that...
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The State of Pakistan’s Dairy Sector : An Assessment
Burki, Abid A.; Khan, Mushtaq A.; Bari, Faisal - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
While there is a plethora of research documenting a multitude of dimensions of the crop sector of Pakistan, there is virtual absence of meaningful economic analysis of the dairy economy that is surprising. No serious attempt has been made in the past to clarify the micro-level potential of this...
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A Century of Rice Innovations
Halos, Saturnina C. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Program revolutionized rice production with its legacy of farmers receptive to technological change. Rice productivity slowly … developers should include in the design of technology its acceptability and its delivery strategy to rice farmers. Other …
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Rice that Filipinos Grow and Eat
Leon, John C. de - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper introduces rice to the reader and analyzes the changes it has gone through these past 100 years in the shaping hands of varietal improvement science. Here, the richness of the crop as a genetic material and resource is revealed. Landrace rice, pureline selection rice, crossbred rice,...
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Special Study on Sustainable Fisheries Management and International Trade in the Southeast Asia and Pacific Region
Komatsu, Masayuki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
This paper analyzes the current status of fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia and international trade. Analysis concludes that a policy of sustainable management for both capture fisheries and aquaculture is of greatest importance, but such a policy has been neither planned nor...
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