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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa
Ickowitz, Amy; Powell, Bronwen; Salim, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
relationship between animal source food consumption and tree cover. Overall our findings suggest that children in Africa who live …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258726
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Previsão da eficácia ofensiva do futebol profissional: Um caso Português
Caiado, Jorge; Vieira, Aníbal; Bonito, Ana; Reis, Carlos; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The forecast plays an important role in the planning, the decision-making and control in any domain of activity … (univariate models), that use only the information of its past values to forecast the future, can often predict future with more … accuracy than causal or multivariate models. In this paper, we model and forecast the offensive effectiveness of the soccer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789648
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Who Does Bear the Costs of Compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Poor Countries?
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
the cost of compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures for poor countries with reference to Africa. He … of value of export in the case of Africa; in each case it depends, however, on the type of product, the destination of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836764
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Environmental pressures and rural-urban migration: The case of Bangladesh
Herrmann, Michael; Svarin, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837076
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Employment, migration and livelihoods in the Hill Economy of Uttaranchal
Mamgain, Rajendra P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Based on primary survey data, the study begins with a brief overview of the theoretical and empirical evidence on employment and livelihoods for rural households in Chapter I. A macro picture of the economy of Uttaranchal is presented in Chapters II and III based on the secondary data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207091
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Estimating the causal effect of forced eradication on coca cultivation in Colombian municipalities
Reyes, Luis Carlos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Coca eradication has been aggressively pursued by the Colombian government to reduce the amount of land that agricultural households in the Andean country devote to this illegal crop. However, little work has been done to assess the causal effect of the policy on land allocation decisions. I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294944
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Some socio-economic consequences of the green revolution
Pisani, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The green revolution has, since the ‘60s, been the subject of lively debate among the international scientific community not only with regards to its technical aspects but, and above all, for socio-economic impacts it caused. The article starts with the analysis of the development theories for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642705
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Mapping the organic vegetable value chain along the EWEC
Lord, Montague J.; Tangtrongjita, Pawat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The present study maps the organic vegetables value chain in the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). It covers horizontal and vertical linkages, information and support services, price differentials, and packaging, branding and certification processes in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110466
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Improving Livelihoods and Prosperity through Value-Added Agriculture: East-West Economic Corridor of Greater Mekong Subregion
Lord, Montague J; Tangtrongjita, Pawat; Chadbunchachai, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The study describes the creation four clusters for organic vegetables along the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). These clusters have three goals: (a) to foster the conversion of conventional agricultural farming to organic production, and thereby enable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112559
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Agriculture, Development and Urban Bias
Bezemer, Dirk J; Headey, Derek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Throughout history, agriculture-led development strategies with state support programs have been essential to achieving rapid economy-wide growth, poverty reduction and structural transformation at early stages of development. Yet over the last three decades, the domestic and international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616738