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Timor-Leste's first ten years of independence have been turbulent and a large share of the population remains poor. Broad-based improvements in living standards will require improvements in agricultural production since most Timorese are subsistence farmers and since there is no modern sector to...
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and Korea, or now emerging economies like China and India. The type of support, of course, varies widely across countries …. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone …Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised …
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country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set … around the world. Japan, China, UK, Israel all offer interesting examples, but the global leader in solar power today is …, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean …
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This paper explores the impact of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement on food security by using a gravity model to examine the regional changes in trade in agricultural products. This is followed by a discussion of how this might affect the four dimensions of food security,...
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listed companies in China (2007 2019), this study uses the difference in differences (DID) method to examine the effects of …
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. Based on the balanced panel data from2014 to 2018 from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)and by means of the fixed effects …
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findings, we recommend that China should support the expansion of high-speed rail in order to reduce carbon emissions in a …
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Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the … irrigation water available in the country. Hence if sustainable agriculture water-use has to be ensured, economics (productivity … scarcity and economic value of water and power use in agriculture, while improving the quality and timely availability of these …
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The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food …
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per land unit. Across the world, studies have suggested the existence of a decreasing relationship between land size and …
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