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FOOD SECURITY, LABOR MARKET AND POVERTY OF THE BIO-ECONOMY IN BRAZIL

Filho, Ferreira; Souza, Joaquim Bento de - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

schooling in sugar cane production are actually higher than in general agriculture in Brazil, and that this is linked to the …

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Biofuels and Food Security: Micro-evidence from Ethiopia

Negash, Martha - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper provides microeconomic evidence on food security impacts of privately organized biofuel outgrower schemes in Ethiopia. We conducted a household and community level survey and evaluated the impact of castor bean farming. We use endogenous switching regressions to analyze the impact on...

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Rapid Urbanization and Food Security: Using Food Density Maps to Identify Future Food Security Hotspots

Matuschke, Ira - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

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Factors Determining the Adoption and Impact of a Postharvest Storage Technology

Bokusheva, Raushan; Finger, Robert; Fischler, Martin; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper evaluates the determinants and impact of adopting the metal silo - a postharvest storage technology for staple grains - which was disseminated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) from 1983 to 2003 in four Central American countries. The aim of the SDC program was...

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Bio-fuels and Food Security in South Africa: The Role of Indigenous and Traditional Food Crops

Cloete, Philip C.; Idsardi, Ernst - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

The level of food security in South Africa is largely being influenced by income inequalities and food prices with a … increasing food inflation, South Africa is still adopting policies and strategies which may contribute towards even higher levels … towards balancing the trade-off between fuel and food in South Africa. In order to answer that question, a literature review …

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Dryland cereals and Household Food Security in Tanzania: Potential and Constraints of Improved Sorghum Cultivars

Schipmann-Schwarze, Christin; Muange, Elijah; Orr, Alastair - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2011

More than one third of the population in Africa is still facing undernourishment and malnutrition. While poor and food …

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Global impacts of targeted interventions in food security crops – the case of potatoes in developing countries

Kleinwechter, Ulrich - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

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Which Farmers Benefit the Most from Bt Corn Adoption in the Philippines? Estimating Heterogeneity Effects

Mutuc, Maria Erlinda M.; Rejesus, Roderick M.; Yorobe … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

The potential contributions of new biotechnologies to sustainable food and income security have been the subject of widespread discussions around the turn of the twenty-first century. But distributional issues of which segments of GMO adopters benefit the most have not been given ample...

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Food Security In South Asia and Its Sustainability: Focus on India

Kalamkar, Shrikant S.; Shroff, Sangeeta - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

Agriculture is the predominant sector of economies of all South Asian countries and poverty and hunger are the most … serious problems faced by this region. Agriculture in this region is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of … rapid growth of some of the economies, dependence on agriculture as an economic activity has seen a negligible decline …

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Improved Maize Technologies and Welfare Outcomes In Smallholder Systems: Evidence From Application of Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches

Kassie, Menale; Jaleta, Moti; Shiferaw, Bekele A.; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper analyses the impact of the intensity of improved maize varieties adoption on food security and poverty using data collected in 2010 from maize-legume farming systems in rural Tanzania. We used a continuous treatment approach using generalized propensity score matching and parametric...

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