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influence of the mix of expenditures related to agriculture on net income generation, using data for 19 Latin American and … positively impacts agriculture's performance. More importantly, and of greater practical economic significance, increasing the …
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of structural transformation and population-level nutrition outcomes is essential for contextualizing agriculture …
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In the European Union (EU) periurban agriculture is under the same agri-environmental policy regime designed for … general agriculture. We argue that the specific needs of periurban agriculture may justify ad hoc agri-environmental policy … agriculture measures in this area. The mismatch between the low uptake rate and the high social benefits generated by the four …
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The need to enhance food security while reducing poverty along with the growing threat imposed by climate change clearly reveal that it is imperative to accelerate agricultural productivity growth. This paper estimates micro-level production models to identify the major factors that have...
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Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised … agriculture in the past, be they developed countries like the United States of America or countries in the European Union or Japan …. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone …
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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result,...
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