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Households typology for relating social diversity and technical change. The example of rural households in the Khambashe area of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Laurent, Catherine; van Rooyen, Johan; Madikizela, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Various South African policy statements and strategy proposals argue that farmer focused planning and farming systems research approaches are required to develop policies, strategies and project activities to serve farmers efficiently. Then, the question is how to give a practical content to...
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Agrarpolitik Marokkos (1956-1980)-Analyse aus entwicklungspolitischer Sicht
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1983
versuchen, erstens die Grundlinien der in Marokko seit der Unabhängigkeit (1956 - 1980) praktizierten Agrarpolitik systematisch …
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Trade and agricultural policies in Malawi: Not all policy reform is equally good for the poor
Douillet, Mathilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
agriculture and downstream sectors are compared with those of integrating in the regional and multilateral markets. Non … preferential integration. Faster intensification and diversification of agriculture is found to enable targeting the poorest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258811
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Contribution of agriculture to national economic development
Iacob, Oana Camelia; Volintiru, Ana-Maria; Marin, Aurel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
status of the population employed in agriculture, development of entrepreneurial initiative and increasing economic …
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Analyzing risk management in Mediterranean Countries: The Syrian perspective
Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Di Pasquale, Jorgelina; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
During the recent years Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs) are facing major political, institutional, economic and societal changes. As a matter of fact, the agricultural sector has been interested by global trends and has become more and more exposed to world dynamics. The resulting...
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Why Do Members of Congress Support Agricultural Protection?
Bellemare, Marc F.; Carnes, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
It seems paradoxical that developed countries continue subsidizing agriculture even though their agricultural sectors …
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Croatia's EU Accession: Socio-economic Assessment of Farm Households and Policy Recommendations
Möllers, Judith; Zier, Patrick; Frohberg, Klaus; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
) policies to develop, structurally adjust and diversify agriculture, and (2) territorial approaches for policies to create and … training in agriculture does not play a big role in rural Croatia. The average level of educational attainment is not fully …. Recommendation 1: Balanced structural change in agriculture Agricultural sector measures and in particular agricultural subsidies …
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Rent seeking, interest groups and environmental lobbying: Cane Farmers versus Great Barrier Reef Protectionists
Beard, Rodney - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper an interest group model of rent seeking behaviour between sugarcane farmers and environmental protectionists is developed. The motivation for this scenario comes from the debate over fertilizer run-off and its possible impact on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. The paper takes...
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"Fortress Europe" in long-term perspective: agricultural protection in the European Community, 1957-2003
Spoerer, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Since its inception, the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been discussed controversely. Data from the OECD and the World Bank show that the protectionist effects of the CAP between the 1960s and the 1980s were larger than those of its national predecessors. Moreover, there...
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Agricultural policy implications of biotechnology
Logan, Samuel H.; Carter, Harold O.; Lohr, Luanne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1987
Advances in genetic engineering involve more than scientific breakthroughs. Potential economic effects - some possibly undesirable - also need to be considered.
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