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Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - realities and perspectives for Romania
Turek - Rahoveanu, Adrian; Andrei, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, Bucharest, Romania, Petroleum and Gas University of … Galati, Romania, under the high scientific patronage of Academy of Agriculture and Forest Sciences "Gheorghe Ionescu Sisesti … struggle against climate changes, biodiversity conservation, enhanced competitiveness and efficiency in agriculture and rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259814
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Deforestation and welfare : evidence from Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372511
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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu; Brian A, Jingwa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three moment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372554
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LESSONS OF INDIAN EXPERIENCE FOR ERITREA
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
development and agriculture development where as Eritrea, a young nation still striving hard to develop these areas and thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789373
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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259199
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Coping with ex-ante regulations for planting Bt maize: the Portuguese experience
Skevas, Theodoros; Wesseler, Justus; Fevereiro, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This article investigates the attitude and practices of Bt and non-Bt maize farmers in Portugal. Thirty-seven Bt maize farmers were interviewed, representing 22.5% of the total number of Bt maize notifications in the country and 31.5% of the total area planted with Bt maize in 2007....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294577
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008743002
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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837294
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Production efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: The Case of Mixed Farming System in the Ethiopian Highlands
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth; Eisemon, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
An aggregate measure of production efficiency involving crop and livestock enterprises is examined in the Selale and Ada regions of Ethiopia using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In general, farmers in regions more suitable to crop production (Ada) tend to attain higher production efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620090
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Unfavorable land endowment, cooperation, and reversal of fortune
Litina, Anastasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
effects of cooperation on the intensive margin of agriculture, low land productivity countries lagged behind during the … important in the process of industrialization, the transition from agriculture to industry among unfavorable land endowment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108929