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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
Carter, Colin A. - 2020
This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …
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Economics of research and innovation in agriculture
Moser, Petra (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Research and … - 2021
"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of … agriculture was 45 percent between 1965 and 2005. This landscape has changed. Today many of the world's wealthier countries have … --Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …
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The role of agriculture in economic development : a conference of the Universtities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research
Thorbecke, Erik (ed.) - 1969
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The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households
Aggarwal, Shilpa; Aker, Jenny C.; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
While cash transfers will tautologically increase contemporaneous consumption, it is unclear whether these gains will persist, especially in rural agricultural settings with limited productive investment opportunities. Using bi-monthly survey data from recipients of a large, unconditional cash...
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Trade in Technology : A Potential Solution to the Food Security Challenges of the 21st Century
Hertel, Thomas W. - 2020
The recent rise in caloric undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demonstrates the continued relevance of the Malthusian footrace between food availability and population. Sluggish growth in farm productivity in SSA has brought to the fore the key role of agricultural technology in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481731
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How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels
Sexton, Steven - 2011
yield gains range from 65% for GE cotton to 12.4% for soybeans and appear to be higher in the developing world than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461958
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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
Deaton, Angus - 2005
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467376
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What do we Really Know about Food Security?
Cafiero, Carlo - 2013
This paper deals with two issues related to the way in which the state of food insecurity in the world can be assessed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459800
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Food Policy in a Warming World
Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...
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Risks in agricultural supply chains
Antràs, Pol (ed.); Zilberman, David (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research; USA / Economic … - 2023
"Climate change and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have exposed the vulnerability of global agricultural supply and value chains. There is a growing awareness of the importance of interactions within and between these supply chains for understanding the performance of agricultural markets. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285294