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Rapidly emerging technologies that capture, manage, communicate, and use information in digital form are dramatically transforming the way that farming and agribusiness are done across the globe-especially for large commercial farms. Nowhere is this more true than in the Russian Federation,...
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Almost a decade after large land-based investment for agriculture increased sharply, opinions on its impact continue to … diverge, partly because (positive or negative) spillovers on neighboring smallholders have never been rigorously assessed …
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elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to …
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surveys allows examination and quantification of spillovers using intertemporal changes in smallholders' proximity and …
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
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The World Bank Group has developed a new diagnostic approach called Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD). This study pilots the use of the World Bank's MFD approach to identify areas along value chains (VCs) where the private sector is involved. More important may be the identification of...
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This report seeks to support the larger jobs study by examining how investment in South Sudan's food sector can not only address food security needs, it can generate income and lay the foundation for livelihood and job creation in the country. It argues that applying a value chain lens to...
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The objective of this note is to provide insights into the potential effect of the adaptation protocol (AP) on imports of European Union (EU) agricultural, food and fisheries products into Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). We adapt and calibrate the Tariff Reform Impact Simulation Tool (TRIST), a...
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improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long …-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i) most estates are less productive than smallholders; (ii) fear of land …
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was implemented in Malawi over a 12-month period, randomly assigning cassava-producing households to one of four … additionally demonstrates likely gross overestimation in international and ministerial statistics on cassava yields in Malawi. For …
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