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The paper examines the impact of access to India's farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras, or KVKs) on agricultural households' welfare using household-level data from the nationally representative Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households conducted by India's National Sample...
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This study is undertaken to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers' income in a case where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal. CF is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain. The prospect for CF in...
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farming on remotely located farmers' income and compliance with food safety measures. Results show that contract farming is …
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Food safety is the most vital component of food security. One option to ensure food safety is through enhancing … the impact of compliance with food safety measures in milk production in Nepal. The study is based on cross … compliance with food safety measures at the dairy farm level is not very encouraging. The intensity with which food safety …
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The Chinese economy has recently experienced a rapid and fundamental transformation, and the public expenditure on agriculture has also changed to reflect shifts in policy priorities. This paper reviewed public agricultural expenditure in a comprehensive way using detailed expenditure data at...
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countries to address food security and poverty reduction. This paper provides a comprehensive review of agricultural policy and … global average for developing countries. Resources allocated to environmental and food safety issues remain extremely low …
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Researchers and policymakers have long understood the benefits of crop insurance but have been consistently disappointed by the poor performance of these programs. Rarely have programs seen sizeable take-up rates without support through large government subsidies, and in many countries, demand...
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The study analyzes food inflation trends in India over the last decade. Annual trends show that different commodities … have contributed to food inflation in different years and that no single commodity shows uniformly high inflation. A … decomposition exercise shows that eggs, meat, fish, milk, cereals, and vegetables were generally the main contributors to recent …
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Adoption of productivity and income-enhancing agricultural technologies is conspicuously low in Africa south of the Sahara. Farmers' beliefs regarding the authenticity of agricultural inputs are important for explaining technology adoption: if farmers do not believe that inputs are genuine, they...
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Policy making in food security is at a crossroads in India, particularly for the rice crop. Whereas India has emerged … as a leading rice exporter over the last two years, the government has also introduced a large food subsidy program … called the National Food Security Act. The program requires that 33.6 million metric tons of rice per year be distributed to …
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