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On the Central Role of Small Farms in African Rural Development Strategies

Larson, Donald F. - 2017

and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using examples from farmers' maize and rice fields, and comparisons with Asia …

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The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security

Headey, Derek D. - 2017

The paper provides the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007-08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or...

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Agriculture and Trade Opportunities for Tanzania : Past Volatility and Future Climate Change

Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017

increase its maize exports to other countries. If global maize production is lower than usual due to supply shocks in major … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below …

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Maize Revolutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Smale, Melinda - 2017

of the maize seed industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. This summary takes a circumspect view of technical change in maize … production. Adoption of improved seed has continued to rise gradually, now representing an estimated 44 percent of maize area in … Eastern and Southern Africa (outside South Africa), and 60 percent of maize area in West and Central Africa. Use of fertilizer …

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The Economic Viability of Jatropha Biodiesel in Nepal

Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017

Nepal depends entirely on imports for meeting its demand for petroleum products, which account for the largest share in total import volume. Diesel is the main petroleum product consumed in the country and accounts for 38 percent of the total national CO2 emissions from fuel consumption. There...

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What is the Social Value of Second-Generation Biofuels?

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2017

What is second-generation biofuel technology worth to global society? A dynamic, computable partial equilibrium model (called FABLE) is used to assess changes in global land use for crops, livestock, biofuels, forestry, and environmental services, as well as greenhouse gas emissions, with and...

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Confronting the Food-Energy-Environment Trilemma : Global Land Use in the Long Run

Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2017

Economic, agronomic, and biophysical drivers affect global land use, so all three influences need to be considered in evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework applied over the course of the coming century shows...

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An Economic Model of Brazil's Ethanol-Sugar Markets and Impacts of Fuel Policies

de Gorter, Harry - 2017

The lack of growth in the Brazilian sugarcane-ethanol complex since the 2008 financial crisis has been blamed on policies: lower mandate, holding gasoline prices below world levels, high fuel taxes, and inadequate fuel tax exemptions for ethanol. This paper develops an empirical model of the...

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Macroeconomic and Distributional Impacts of Jatropha-Based Biodiesel in Mali

Boccanfuso, Dorothée - 2017

Mali, a landlocked West African nation at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, has introduced a program to produce biodiesel using jatropha curcas, a non-edible shrub widely available throughout the country by farmers for generations as a living fence for their gardens. The aim of the program...

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Are Biofuels Economically Competitive with Their Petroleum Counterparts?Production Cost Analysis for Zambia

Sinkala, Thomson - 2017

With increased global interest in biofuels, Zambia, a Sub-Saharan African country that entirely depends on imports for its petroleum supply, is planning to implement blending mandates for biofuels. But, a large number of issues -- including production costs of biofuels, land requirements to meet...

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