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Agricultural Value Chain Development in Practice : Private Sector-Led Smallholder Development
Kolavalli, Shashidhara - 2015
Value chain development is adopted widely as a private sector-led approach to agricultural development that can benefit smallholders. The objective of this research is to understand how development organizations are conceptualizing and developing agricultural value chains in Ghana to include...
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Agribusiness Competitiveness : Applying Analytics, Typology, and Measurements to Africa
Babu, Suresh Chandra - 2017
Agribusiness has a major role to play in the transformation of the agricultural sector in Africa. With the demand for high-value food products increasing around the world, the production and export of these goods represents an opportunity to achieve increases in income and employment. To capture...
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Patterns of Regional Agri-Food Trade in Asia
Diao, Xinshen; Li, Ruoxin - 2020
This paper analyzes the implication of economic structural change and dietary transformation on changing patterns of agri-food trade among 17 Asian development countries. Sub-regional trade in Central, South, and Southeast Asia is the focus of the paper, along with trade with other partners...
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Structural Change in Argentina, 1935-60 : The Role of Import Substitution and Factor Endowments
Debowicz, Dario - 2013
relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative stagnation in agriculture … agriculture …
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An Overview of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Engagement in Tanzania
Bräutigam, Deborah - 2013
clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088821
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The Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production : Evidence from Rural China
Qin, Yu - 2013
Because many rural poor live in areas far away from markets, we investigate whether better road access could help improve their livelihood and reduce rural poverty. We use three waves of a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages in China to study how...
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Women's Empowerment in Agriculture and Dietary Quality Across the Life Course : Evidence from Bangladesh
Sraboni, Esha - 2018
's empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is …
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Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture and Nutritional Outcomes : Evidence From Six Countries in Africa and Asia
Quisumbing, Agnes - 2020
's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834108
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WTO Dispute Settlement Cases Involving the Agreement on Agriculture, 1995–2019
Glauber, Joseph W. - 2020
A landmark achievement of the Uruguay Round, and notably, the Agreement on Agriculture, was the full inclusion of … agriculture in multilateral rules and disciplines. Since the birth of World Trade Organization (WTO), a significant number of … member countries have used the dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) for resolving the disputes in agriculture. The DSM has …
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Changing Composition of Private Investment in Indian Agriculture and Its Relationship With Public Investment and Input Subsidies
Kumar, Anjani - 2020
assess its relationship with public investment in agriculture. Amidst sizeable ups and downs, the magnitude and rate of … growth in private investment in agriculture has gained momentum from 2000s except in Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and … formation in farm business, is evident in agriculturally advanced states. Within agriculture, relatively higher investments in …
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