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Consensus, Institutions, and Supply Response : The Political Economy of Agricultural Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Aksoy, Ataman - 2017
During the late 1980s and the 1990s, most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa implemented agricultural policy reforms, along with national political and economic reforms. The agricultural reforms focused on opening up processing and marketing activities to increased competition and eliminating...
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Will Digital Technologies Transform Agriculture in Developing Countries?
Deichmann, Uwe - 2017
Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is …
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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors
Havlík, Petr - 2017
This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that...
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Gender and Agriculture : Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps
Croppenstedt, Andre - 2017
Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 …
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Agriculture and the Clean Development Mechanism
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
Many experts believe that low-cost mitigation opportunities in agriculture are abundant and comparable in scale to …
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Finance and Hunger : Empirical Evidence of the Agricultural Productivity Channel
Claessens, Stijn - 2016
Using cross-country and panel regressions, the authors show that financial sector development significantly reduces undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into beneficial income and general effects. They show...
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Do Global Trade Distortions Still Harm Developing Country Farmers?
Anderson, Kym - 2016
The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value added in various countries. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the GTAP-AGR model of the global economy, their results suggest...
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Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
Divanbeigi, Raian - 2017
The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades …, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and … measures of regulatory quality and regulatory efficiency in agriculture. Second, the paper employs cross-section data to test …
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Playing to Strength : Growth Strategy for Small Agrarian Economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid - 2018
, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion?s share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912289
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Are Mega-Farms the Future of Global Agriculture? Exploring the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
With farms cultivating tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares, Ukraine is often used to demonstrate the existence of economies of scale in modern grain production. Panel data analysis for all the country's farms with more than 200 hectares in 2001-2011 suggests that higher yields and profits...
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