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Analyzing the Impact of Food Price Increases: Assumptions about Marketing Margins can be Crucial

Dawe, David; Maltsoglou, Irini - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2009

negative impacts of higher food prices. In addition, the bias is not necessarily uniform across income quintiles; thus, failure …

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Agricultural Policy Indicators

Josling, Timothy; Valdés, Alberto - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

This paper outlines a methodological approach for use by FAO to collect, analyze and monitor agricultural policy indicators (API) for developing countries. The aim is to establish a consistent and comparable set of policy indicators, allowing analysts to examine whether agriculture in particular...

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Changes and Potential Resilience of Food Systems in the Nuba Mountains Conflict

Pantuliano, Sara - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2005

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Information Asymmetry and Economic Concentration: The case of hens and eggs in eastern Indonesia

Kristiansen, Stein - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

aims to discuss why concentration of chicken feed and egg production is maintained in the central areas of the country …, while malnutrition, poverty and unemployment are high and increasing in areas without commercial feed and egg production … used by new commercial egg producers at peripheral sites of production. Lowering entry barriers into poultry feed and layer …

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Have Recent Increases in International Cereal Prices Been Transmitted to Domestic Economies? The experience in seven large Asian countries

Dawe, David - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2008

food consumption and production. This paper analyzes, for seven large Asian countries, the extent to which domestic prices … especially true for rice, the main staple food in the region, but it is also true for wheat. On average, through the end of 2007 … farmers and consumers rather efficiently. Fourth, the experience with urea fertilizer prices is more heterogeneous: some …

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Determinants of Cereal Diversity in Communities and on Household Farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands

Benin, Samuel; Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Smale, Melinda; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

On farm conservation of crop diversity poses obvious policy challenges in terms of the design of appropriate incentive mechanisms and possible trade-offs between conservation and productivity. This paper compares factors explaining the inter-specific diversity (diversity among species) and...

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Long-Term Farming Trends. An Inquiry Using Agricultural Censuses

Anríquez, Gustavo; Bonomi, Genny - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2007

This paper provides a long-term and global view at current farming trends by analyzing a specially created database of farming characteristics of 17 countries across 43 different agricultural censuses representing the different developing regions of the world. The study shows that while...

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From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution: How will the Poor Fare?

Pingali, Prabhu; Raney, Terri - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2005

Revolution strategy for food crop productivity growth was based on the premise that, given appropriate institutional mechanisms …

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The Economic Impacts of Biotechnology-Based Technological Innovations

Traxler, Greg - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

Global adoption of transgenic crops reached 67.7 million hectares in 2003 from 2.8 million in 1996. Delivery has occurred almost entirely through the private sector and adoption has been rapid in areas where the crops addressed serious production constraints and where farmers had access to the...

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Diversification in South Asian Agriculture: Trends and constraints

Dorjee, Kinlay; Broca, Sumiter; Pingali, Prabhu - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

This paper provides an assessment of the agricultural diversification trends in South Asia. In the first part food …

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