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This study is an attempt to analyze the impact of Edible Oil Deficit on Food Expenditure in Pakistan for the period … 1971-2008. Edible oil deficit is one of the major concerns for the policy makers in Pakistan. Despite of having agriculture … has been used to analyse the long run relationship amongst the variables. Other important determinants of food expenditure …
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creating Market Information Services for food and agriculture usually fail. The author distills experiences and lessons from …
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This paper, for the 2008 World Export Development Forum, considers the emerging importance of standards and offers a brief overview of the main public-private standards that increasingly govern trade in agrifood products. Their dynamic and rapidly evolving nature, particularly for ecolabels,...
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This study uses stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier to estimate farm level technical efficiency of rice farms. Average technical efficiency of sampled farms was estimated to be 85 percent with a minimum of 57 percent and a maximum of 96 percent. The results further showed that the visits...
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The markets for agri-food products are changing at a pace that is unparalleled in modern history. Markets are …
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In countries where agriculture has substantial role in generating domestic product, sustainable microfinance can … seriously increase economic activities and hence rural development. It is well known that agriculture is perceived as specific … targeted towards strategic economic sectors such agriculture, with a focus on Agricultural Credit Discount Fund - a separate …
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Due to its natural resources, the Brazilian economy has been able, at the same time, to provide the needs of the internal market of agricultural an agroindustrial products as well as of playing a major role in the international market for some agricultural and agroindustrial products. However,...
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In countries where agriculture has substantial role in generating domestic product, sustainable agro-finance can … seriously increase economic development. It is well known that agriculture is perceived as risky to be financed by commercial … special lending products targeted towards agriculture. The focus will be put on comparison between the first pillar – direct …
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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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Adaptation to climate change has become an important policy question in recent years. Agriculture is the economic … adapt to climate change. Adaptation actions in agriculture are evaluated to determine how the climate affects production …
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