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development policies in Mozambique and Zambia. Both countries face the challenge of organizing input supply to farmers in the … monopolies to interlink input and output markets and facilitate credit recovery. In Zambia, the government completely liberalized …. Despite being landlocked, Zambia's cotton sector has achieved better performance in terms of both value of cotton output per …
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agriculture in Malawi and Zambia are summarized. Implications for policy and research are drawn. A case for increased public … spending on agriculture is presented first, followed by a region-wide perspective and a focus on Malawi and Zambia. … know what public spending on agriculture sector will have the largest impact on the poor and how the resources should be …
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Zambia's strong dependence on copper exports has suppressed other tradables sectors, indicative of a Dutch disease …
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Replaced with revised version of paper 08/04/09.
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agriculture. …
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-separable household demand and consumption models using data collected from 300 farm households in Zambia during the 2003/04 crop season …
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to study Zambia’s regional agricultural trade flows and the impact of the SADC Trade Protocol (SADC-TP). Zambia’s volume … of trade is significantly related to most of the standard gravity variables. The results indicate that Zambia has been … largely trading below potential, especially with respect to exports. There have been improvements in Zambia’s trade flows …
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Agricultural multifunctionality is the recognition of the joint exercise of economic, environmental and social functions by this sector. In order to make this concept operative for the design of public policies, it is necessary to estimate the social demand for such functions. The main objective...
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This paper describes a methodology to assess the impact of the decoupling of payments on Irish farms at a regional level. The methodology is based on a farm level dynamic linear programming model which optimises regional gross margin under a set of constraints. Regionally representative farms...
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broad historical picture of U.S. official economic statistics concerning agriculture, and then turn to selected examples …
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