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Public expenditures and the performance of Latin American and Caribbean agriculture
Anriquez, Gustavo; Foster, William E.; Ortega, Jorge; … - 2016
Economic theory and econometric evidence support the thesis that the displacement of government expenditures on public goods by subsidies to private goods inhibits the performance of the farm sector. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the mix of expenditures related to...
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Agricultural productivity in El Salvador : a preliminary analysis
Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Njuki, Eric; Palacios, Ana Claudia; … - 2022
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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Options to achieve net-zero emissions from agriculture and land use changes in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dumas, Patrice; Wirsenius, Stefan; Searchinger, Tim; … - 2022
Eleven countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by around 2050. Changes in the food system are key to reach these carbon neutrality goals, as agriculture and resulting land-use changes are responsible for almost half of greenhouse gas emissions in the...
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Agricultural input subsidies and productivity : the case of Paraguayan farmers
Lopez, Cesar Augusto; Salazar, Lina; Salvo, Carmine Paolo de - 2017
It is a well-known fact that a great majority of countries implement agricultural input subsidies as a tool to boost agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely spread and represents a large part of the agricultural budget, little emphasis has been placed...
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Estimating the impacts of a fruit fly eradication program in Peru : a geographical regression discontinuity approach
Salazar, Lina; Maffioli, Alessandro; Aramburu, Julián; … - 2016
In this paper, we evaluate the short term impact of a Fruit Fly Eradication Program in the coastal areas of Peru. Exploiting arbitrary variation in the program's intervention borders, as well as precise geographic location data of farmer's households, we use a Geographical Regression...
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Agri-environmental policies in a transition economy : using a choice experiment to value agricultural biodiversity on Hungarian small farms
Birol, Ekin; Gyovai, Ágnes; Smale, Melinda - 2004
Agricultural biodiversity is a crucial environmental resource. Much of the agricultural biodiversity remaining today is found on the semi-subsistence farms of poorer countries and on the small-scale farms and home gardens of more industrialised nations. The traditional Hungarian home gardens,...
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Rationalising fertiliser subsidy in India : key issues and policy options
Gulati, Ashok; Banerjee, Pritha - 2015
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 and Korea, or now emerging economies like China and...
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Credit policy for agriculture in India : an evaluation ; supporting Indian farms the smart way ; rationalising subsidies and investments for faster, inclusive and sustainable growt...
Hoda, Anwarul; Terway, Prerna - 2015
Rural indebtedness and dependence on private moneylenders is an age-old problem in India. For more than 100 years now, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural areas particularly to assist in agricultural operations....
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Periurban agriculture : do the current EU agri-environmental policy programmes fit with it?
Arata, Linda; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano; … - 2018
Milan, which was designed to assess the willingness to pay (WTP) for ecological benefits generated by four agri … agriculture measures in this area. The mismatch between the low uptake rate and the high social benefits generated by the four … specifically targeted to periurban areas, where the costs of compliance with AEMs are high and the social benefits of their …
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Revealing the willingness to pay for income insurance in agriculture
Pérez Blanco, Carlos Dionisio; Gómez, C. M. - 2015
A stable agricultural income is often regarded as a way to achieve a better environmental performance in this sector. However, conventional income stabilization tools have been showing recently signs of exhaustion. Under this critical juncture, EU institutions have encouraged the expansion of...
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