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El Niño and Indian droughts: A scoping exercise
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014
Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...
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Towards sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture: Case of rice and sugarcane
Gulati, Ashok; Mohan, Gayathri - 2018
of eastern region. At the same time, set the markets right (reduce market risk) for the less water intensive crops that …
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To reform and to procure: An analysis of the role of the state and the market in Indian agriculture
Misra, Kartik; Basu, Deepankar - 2022
Since the early 2000s, many Indian states started reforming their agricultural marketing policies and allowed private … traders to buy directly from farmers outside the state-regulated market system. The experience of these states during the … period 2000 - 2012 can shed light on the impact of market-oriented reforms and the role of public procurement. Using …
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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India
Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014
national production basket, of alienation of market forces and its players, of quality of grain, and the sustainability and …
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Modelling Indian wheat and rice sector policies
Kozicka, Marta; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Saini, Shweta; … - 2015
several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … and market price. The signs of the estimated price elasticities of demand are consistent with the theory; however, for … stocks are found to strongly crowd out private stocks but not to the same extent as public stocks are build up. Total exports …
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Agricultural productivity in Burkina Faso: The role of gender and risk attitudes
Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022
This study analyzes how risk attitudes influence the agricultural productivity of men and women in a subSaharan African country, Burkina Faso. By using a large representative panel survey of farmers, the results show that as female farmers increase risk taking, the productivity of female-owned...
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The Circular City and the Building Sector
Franz, Gianfranco - 2020
The essay deals with the issue of urban circularity understood as a subset of the Circular Economy paradigm, highlighting potential and limits of an emerging new model spreading on a global scale. The critical reasoning starts from a very recent production of institutional documents and the...
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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods
Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Anna - 2007
This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...
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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region
Parkatti, Vesa-Pekka; Tahvonen, Olli - 2020
We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest logging and maintaining forests as reindeer pastures for indigenous people. We use a detailed model that simultaneously includes timber production, carbon storage in living...
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The impact of extension services on farming households in Western Kenya: A propensity score approach
Deschamps-Laporte, Jean-Philippe - 2013
The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the farming households, as promoted by the National Agriculture and Livestock Extension Programme (NALEP), a program run by the Government of Kenya. To this end, we collected data on...
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