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"Agriculture produces food fundamental for human health. It therefore seems obvious that agriculture, food, and health … are related! Agriculture affects whether people have enough food to eat, whether it is of sufficient nutritional value … different ways of looking at the relationships between agriculture, food, and health. Agricultural connections to food and …
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. A clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development … partners to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural …
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engagement in Africa’s agricultural sector. A clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation … engagements, and investment by Chinese firms between 1970 and 2011. We find that Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural …
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financing agriculture for a host of reasons: high cost of service delivery, information asymmetries, lack of branch networks …, perceptions of low profitability in agriculture, lack of collateral, high levels of rural poverty, or low levels of farmer … education and financial literacy. But, predominantly, bank managers around the world say they will not finance agriculture …
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During the decade from 1982/83 through 1992/93, Bangladesh was able to increase production of rice, its staple food, at a rate modestly higher than the growth in population. However, the growth in per capita supply remained stagnant, because of the substitution of imports with domestic...
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Market liberalization, though an important element in economic reforms in developing countries in the past two decades, has been accused of harming the poor through higher food prices, layoffs in formerly state-owned enterprises, and the erosion of social safety net programs. Since the 1980s...
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agriculture provides the primary means of livelihood. It has been argued that an agriculture-based development (ABD) strategy is … strategy, increased public resources allocated to agriculture and the rural sector would lead to rising agricultural … exogenous income increases in agriculture (such as that arising from productivity growth) in Central Viet Nam, paying particular …
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The Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson (HOS) model in international trade theory provides a powerful general-equilibrium paradigm for analyzing the impact of changes in trade on factor returns. In the HOS model, factor returns are determined solely by commodity prices, which are determined on large world...
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This paper discusses micro-level practices for adapting to climate change that are available to small-scale farmers in Africa. The analysis is based on a review of 17 studies about practices that boost small-scale farmers' resilience or reduce their vulnerability to observed or expected changes...
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for domestic support, market access, and export competition for agriculture. The Agreement on Agriculture laid the way for …
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