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context of modern agriculture, with well defined property rights, agricultural contracts must balance costs and benefits …
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Recent academic discussion regarding crop insurance in developing and transition countries has focused on weather index insurance. But empirical analyses of such schemes based on farm level data cannot be found in the literature, though this insurance type shows clear advantages compared to...
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) developed and less developed countries, and (ii) on LDC agriculture. The consequences of these asymmetries are reflected in the …-ready agricultural goods. The impacts of these changes on LDC agriculture have been quite differentiated, with most countries …, the implications for LDC agriculture do not seem encouraging. The intrinsic poverty of these economies, with the implied …
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This paper explores the competing concepts of 'standards as barriers' and standards as catalysts' in the context of food safety standards in international trade in agricultural and food products. It is suggested that food safety standards can act as both a barrier to trade and the basis of...
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This paper analyse the patterns of productivity and economic growth in the Tunisian agriculture during the 19612000 …. Results indicated that agriculture output growth where high in both the 19611970 and the 19711980 periods but decreased during …
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This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm pro duction in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing hous eholds from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and...
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The framework allows comprehensive and consistent measurement and classification of U.S. domestic support to 2015 under different assumptions. Projections of future U.S. domestic support patterns are made with estimates published in the USDA Agricultural Baseline Projections. We also use...
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We analyze the consequences of seasonal variation in maternal consumption on child health using two nationally representative Gambian household surveys. Seasonal fluctuation in consumption stems from difficulties borrowing when incomes are low during the rainy season and saving when they peak...
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Global general equilibrium simulations of “regional” (within Sub-Saharan Africa –SSA-) and “multilateral” (Doha and … preferential) trade integration are compared to assess policy reform priorities. Their coherence with the objective of agriculture …
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We analyze the consequences of seasonal variation in maternal consumption on child health using two nationally representative Gambian household surveys. Seasonal fluctuation in consumption stems from difficulties borrowing when incomes are low during the rainy season and saving when they peak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069639