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This paper provides a comprehensive review of agricultural policy and public agricultural expenditure (PAE) in China. China shifted away from taxing agriculture to supporting agriculture in the mid-2000s, but the sector faces mounting demographic, biophysical, and trade challenges. PAE in China...
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In an era of limited research resources and limitless research needs, demonstrating the worth of any research discipline to policymakers and administrators is a prerequisite for obtaining future funding and making an impact in policy matters. Economists have worked diligently in developing both...
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In this paper we develop a dynamic regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) model for Honduras that incorporates regional disaggregated sectors for agriculture. We undertook this research to address two pressing policy concerns in Honduras. First, what growth strategy should the country...
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"The reform experiences of China and India—similar in some ways and different in others—shed light on the enormous …
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implications of such voracious property for biodiversity. " Author's Abstract …
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these markets benefit the poor and the environment. Increasing attention is being given to the potential role markets can … development of poor communities that manage agricultural biodiversity." authors' abstract …
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are important to maintaining biodiversity and to human welfare; failing to recognize them presents dangers. The case study …
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. Eyzaguirre; 13. Urban Agriculture and Health / Diana Lee-Smith and Gordon Prain; 14. Agriculture, Environment, and Health: Toward …
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"Good health and productive agriculture are both essential in the fight against poverty. In a rapidly changing world, agriculture faces many challenges, both old (natural resource constraints, extreme weather conditions, and agricultural pests) and new (globalization, environmental degradation,...
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"Biodiversity provides essential components of healthy environments and sustainable livelihoods. One key component of … biodiversity is agrobiodiversity—that is, the cultivated plants and animals that form the raw material of agriculture, the wild …
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