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This report assesses agriculture policy support estimates in Angola. These estimates represent the monetary value assigned to different agriculture support policies and programs using the OECD methodology for the years 2018-2019. The advantages of using the OECD methodology are that: (a) it...
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Since 2013, the performance of Russian agriculture can fairly be described as remarkable. On average, Russian agriculture has been growing faster (3.3 percent per year) than gross domestic product (GDP) (0.9 percent per year). Increasing food exports and decreasing imports have led to a fall in...
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This note provides recommendations for redesigning Zambia's Farmer Input Support Program (FISP) in the context of international experience with other similar programs, especially those in Africa. The objective of this note is to provide recommendations that can help in improving the current...
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This report assesses agriculture policy support estimates in Mozambique. These estimates represent the monetary value assigned to different agriculture support policies and programs using the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) methodology for 2018. The advantages of...
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Zimbabwe has a long history of providing subsidies to farmers. The policies that have defined these subsidies have changed over time and led periodically to significant and unsustainable pressure on fiscal resources. Agricultural subsidy costs are a main driver of recent fiscal imbalances and...
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In recent decades, the Chinese government has placed great importance on developing agriculture and rural areas, adopting policies, and increasing public expenditures targeting these. China's agricultural policies and support mechanisms have evolved, responding to emerging challenges and...
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incomes is essential to reducing poverty and ensuring the benefits of growth are distributed more equally. Income growth …. Smallholder farming is the chief activity for most rural households, with income from non-farm sources and migration playing a … section two, the following section provides some context by detailing the income, assets, and market engagements of rural …
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progress and possibly undo most of the gains made in the recent past. This rural income diagnostics (RID) study seeks to inform … urban areas. The focus is on income growth that results in higher incomes on average, but also income that is less volatile … RID focuses only on income that is earned by rural households, it is much more detailed in its identification of the …
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opportunities to increase the income of rural households. The third step investigates the key constraints preventing rural … income. Details are provided in Figure 9. The analysis selects the key constraints that prevent households from taking … income; (2) strength of evidence that addressing the constraint will help income growth, (3) the constraint has a stronger …
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Agriculture remains economically and socially important in Vietnam despite agriculture's declining share of gross domestic product (GDP). The share of primary agricultural activity in the GDP has fallen to 13 percent, compared with more than 30 percent two decades ago. The active labor force in...
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