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To assess how financial markets and commodities are inter-related, this paper introduces a ‘volatility surprise’ component into the asymmetric DCC with one exogenous variable (ADCCX) framework. We develop an econometric model in which returns and volatility allow to influence pairs of...
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As we get ready to emerge from the current crisis, one wonders whether there will still be room for such concepts as « local » and « rural ». They were very present during the seventies when softer type of growth was aimed at. A quick leap foreward under the ideology of modernization is now...
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This thesis is an evaluation of the overall technical and economic mitigation potential in China agriculture and the … above a notional baseline level. An analysis of Chinese climate policies reveals that agriculture is nearly absent in the … integrating agriculture into domestic mitigation policies. In the first place, the emissions trends and calculation methods are …
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L'objet de ce papier est l'étude des déterminants de l'offre de riz des ménages agricoles malgaches à partir des enquêtes des Observatoires Ruraux de 1996. Plusieurs démarches sont envisagées. Tout d'abord, l'étude des déterminants du rendement du riz au niveau des parcelles permet de...
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-carbon economy. Agriculture accounts for approximately 11 % of China’s national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with cereal production … baseline scenario, a 2 % annual reduction in N inputs, combined with improved water management in rice paddies, would mitigate … security. Better management practices will entail additional gains in soil organic carbon further decreasing GHGI. To realize …
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society whose subsistence relies on the slash-and-burn farming agriculture (hatsake) and the burning of cacti which are given …
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Twenty years after Independence, the land question is still an urgent unresolved issue in Zimbabwe. The government launched the land reform after 1980 and led an active policy in favour of the rural areas. But the land reform programme slowed down considerably in the second half of the eighties,...
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This chapter briefly summarizes the causes and consequences of soil erosion, before presenting examples of effective soil conservation technologies (SCT), such as contour-based cropping, cover crops, mulching and geo-textiles, and based on case studies from northern Thailand and northern...
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Les travailleurs indépendants échappent à la plupart des études sur la stratification sociale. L'étude de leur patrimoine est une voie possible pour progresser dans la connaissance de leur position sociale. En effet, la plupart des indépendants exploitent eux-mêmes un patrimoine...
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related policies, this chapter looks at the commercialization of smallholder agriculture and, in particular, the need to … have from largely subsistence-oriented to market-oriented agriculture. This development began in Thailand earlier than in … Vietnam, but during the 2000s, smallholder agriculture in Vietnam also commercialized at a rapid rate, leading to an increase …
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