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On the composite indicators for food security: Decisions matter!
Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
During the past decades, there has been much debate on food security. A variety of indicators have been proposed in order to establish which countriesare in need of improved food security status. The heterogeneity of existing indicators and the lack of consensus on how to compare and rank...
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Food security in South Asia: strategies and programmes for regional collaboration
Iqbal, Muhammad; Amjad, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study examines movements over time in key factors influencing food security in South Asia. Country level and regional level food security indices (FSI) were constructed to track progress in achieving food security keeping in view its availability, stability, access, and nutritional status...
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AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY POLICY IN ERITREA - AN ANALYSIS
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The main economic activity of the people of Eritrea is agriculture: crop production and livestock herding. Agriculture mainly comprises mixed farming and some commercial concessions. Most agriculture is rain-fed. The main rain-fed crops are sorghum, millet and sesame, and the main irrigated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786953
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Land Use Rights and Productivity: Insights from a 2006 Rural Household Survey
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van den Broeck, Katleen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Vietnam and the productivity effect on plot level and whole farm rice growing . We show that land titles are indeed important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008923019
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Change in Social Capital – a Case Study of Collective Rice Farming Practice in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Le, Anh Tuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong delta of Vietnam - manifested in the … tradition of collective farming practice, changed from the 1940s to 1990s. The reason this collective rice farming had existed … agrarian reforms which aimed to improve rural livelihood. Land reform resulted in individual rice farming, making mobilization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685560
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SRI Cultivation in Andhra Pradesh : Achievements, Problems and Implications for GHGs and Work
Duvvuru, Narasimha Reddy; Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
the rice industry sector to contribute to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change by increasing rice … method of rice cultivation: the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). SRI is an innovative approach to rice cultivation but …
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A computer-based system for the management of field crop pests
Bhatti, Saeed Akhtar; Hameed, Nabeela; Chaudhri, Inayatullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
crop as well as system for Rice Stem Borers (RSB) simulation. The system works in two parts. The first part addresses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112133
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Regulatory Environment and Subsidies and It’s Impact on Rice Sub-sector in India
Singh, K.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
the production and trade of rice the most important food crop in India and the world. …
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Exploring Environmental Services Incentive Policies for the Philippine Rice Sector: The Case of Intra-Species Agro Biodiversity Conservation
Fuwa, Nobuhiko; Sajise, Asa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of Philippine rice farming. We empirically estimate a model of farmer behavior and then simulate the consequences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534233
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SPATIAL integration of the rice market: emprirical evidence from mid-west and far-west Nepal and the Nepalese-Indian border
Sanogo, Issa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper studies the integration of rice markets in the mid-west and far-west districts of Nepal. The data were drawn … mainly from the World Food Programme (WFP) database on Nepal. Results indicate that the rice markets of the hinterland are …
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