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sustainably valorise the small peasants agriculture in Africa and include the smallholders in global markets. Certification and … smallholders of this new North- South trade regime established by certificates and labels. This article uses the theory of Global … the “cahiers de charges” imposed by the North however may cause exclusion of many smallholders in these new North …
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This study uses a unique panel dataset that spans a 20-year period (1985-2005), and estimates the effect of household non-traditional agricultural export (NTX) adoption on changes in livelihood orientation and participation in non-farm employment in Santiago Sacatepéquez municipality of...
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This paper proposes a strategic framework for policies to assist smallholders in developing countries. It describes the … on smallholders, and the consequent need for policies to facilitate rather than impede adjustment. A key premise of the … framework is that, for the majority of smallholders, the long term (i.e. inter-generational)future lies outside the sector …
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This study is the first to document the long-term welfare effects of household non-traditional agricultural export (NTX) adoption. We use a unique panel dataset, which spans the period of 1985-2005, and employ difference-in-differences estimation to investigate the long-term impact of NTX...
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Biogas production is one of the influential innovations of recent decades in German agriculture. Due to high guaranteed …
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In 2003 a research study looked at the position of smallholders; the survey was carried out using questionnaires and …
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of England and Wales agriculture would rise, due to increased production of high market value and high margin crops. Some …
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This paper develops a thorough yet easily implementable approach to measuring agriculture’s contribution to rural … and tested for three scenarios. Our results clarify the role that agriculture still plays in the context of rural … viability. They demonstrate that agriculture’s contribution to rural viability differs considerably between the case study …
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ACRE is an Agro-eConomic model for agricultural pRoduction at rEgional level. Based on an extension of Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) this model was developed as a decision tool for politics with respect to questions of global change- and political scenarios. ACRE was applied in two...
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