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contribution of the agriculture sector to the country's economic growth and diversification, employment creation, poverty reduction …, however, requires an integrated set of multi-sectoral policies. Synergistic public and private investments in agriculture …, water, and land can lead to increased production and productivity by transitioning from low returns from agriculture to high …
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Mozambique, the only Lusophone country covered in the agribusiness indicators initiative, has had a turbulent history since independence. Civil unrest over some 20 years and frequent drought in southern Mozambique, coupled with floods near the many waterways that transect the country (mainly...
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Agriculture and agribusiness play an important role in the Zambian economy, contributing around 20 percent of gross … domestic product (GDP) in recent years and about 12 percent of national export earnings. Agriculture employs nearly 70 percent … productivity, market access, and the policy environment for agriculture in Zambia. This report presents findings of a data …
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The report proposes key elements for an agricultural export-oriented strategy in Egypt, that would build on the … agriculture, including estimates of the current nominal, and effective protection rates of key imports, and exports, and, the … estimated effects of alternative agricultural, and trade policy reform scenarios, on the returns to farming in alternative crops …
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This report focuses on growing trade in food staples in the Southern and Eastern African region of Africa as one of the largest growth opportunities available to African farmers. This paper examines the impact of regional trade in food staples, both for maintaining farmer incentives in surplus...
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This report presents policy, market, and agriculture transition in the Northern Uplands of Lao People's Democratic … and transition patterns of the principal small-holder agriculture systems in the Northern Uplands; and (b) recommendations … out a typology of traditional and emerging agriculture production systems in the Northern Uplands as a starting point of …
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"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions can be poor guides to the policies' economic effects. Recent theoretical literature provides indicators of trade and welfare-reducing effects of...
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The approach taken in this report reflects the view of the collaborating international organizations that price volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and long-term, with highly differentiated impacts on...
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