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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene - 2005
"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...
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Environmental Drivers of Agricultural Productivity Growth : CO2 Fertilization of US Field Crops
Taylor, Charles A.; Schlenker, Wolfram - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
> equates to a 0.5%, 0.6%, and 0.8% yield increase for corn, soybeans, and wheat, respectively. Viewed retrospectively, 10%, 30 …
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The Political Economy of U.S. Export Subsidies for Wheat
Gardner, Bruce L. - 1994
During 1985-93 the U.S. Government provided $4.9 billion in subsidies to targeted foreign buyers of U.S. wheat under … of wheat have not opposed the program; and the program received an initial boost because of its use of large government …-owned wheat stocks, allowing it to be treated as budget neutral in Congress. An economic argument that carried political weight …
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Geopolitical Shocks And Commodity Market Dynamics : New Evidence From The Russian-Ukraine Conflict
Aizenman, Joshua; Lindahl, Robert; Stenvall, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
affects the markets of wheat (3%) and European natural gas (12%). However, substantial heterogeneity is observed among the …
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Subsidies and the African Green Revolution : Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique
Carter, Michael - 2019
The Green Revolution bolstered agricultural yields and rural well-being in Asia and Latin America, but bypassed sub-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers...
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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture
Laborde, David - 2020
To understand the impacts of support programs on global emissions, this paper considers the impacts of domestic subsidies, price distortions at the border, and investments in emission-reducing technologies on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full...
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The Buck Stops Where? The Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies
Goodwin, Barry K. - 2011
The U.S. has a long history of providing generous support for the agricultural sector. A recent omnibus package of farm legislation, the 2008 Farm Bill (P.L. 110-246) will provide in excess of $284 billion in financial support to U.S. agriculture over the 2008-2012 period. Commodity program...
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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity : Lessons from China
Huang, Jikun - 2008
Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite strongly negative for most commodities, and...
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Agricultural productivity and producer behavior
Schlenker, Wolfram (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2019
Heterogeneous yield impacts from adoption of genetically engineered corn and the importance of controlling for weather /Jayson L. Lusk, Jesse Tack, and Nathan P. Hendricks --Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on US agricultural productivity: evidence and projection /Sun Ling Wang,...
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Endogenous Participation in Agricultural Support Programs and Ad ValoremEquivalent Modelling
Whalley, John - 1988
quantity effects. We make our point by focusing on pre-1985 US wheat programs, but features of programs in many other countries …
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