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This study looks at the performance of livestock production in Uruguay and Paraguay, analyzing two situations with different implications for development: the displacement of livestock by soybean production as occurred in Uruguay and in the Eastern region of Paraguay, and the expansion of the...
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The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture provides a particularly complex pattern of multidimensional negative …
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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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. Global biodiversity regulation involves choosing the optimal stopping rule regarding global land conversions, in order to … biodiversity regulation is similar to the bargaining problem analysed by Nash, Rubinstein and others. There are benefits from …
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