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Food and Energy (In)security: Evidence from Agricultural Investments in Selected Emerging Economies
Zolin, Maria Bruna; Braggion, Marco - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2013
Land grabbing appears to be driven by a variety of factors that seem destined to expand in the long term. The aim of this paper is to highlight the behavior and the role of China (a net food importer country) and India (which is facing a problem of energy insecurity) in the current escalation of...
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Improving the Lot of the Farmer: Development Challenges in Timor-Leste during the Second Decade of Independence
Lundahl, Mats; Sjöholm, Fredrik - In: Asian Economic Papers 12 (2013) 2, pp. 71-96
agriculture. © 2013 The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. …
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Assessing environmental management in agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a … environmental management in agriculture as eco-management associated with agricultural production. Second, it specifies spectrum of …. Third, it suggests stages in analysis and improvement of environmental management in agriculture including: identification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401346
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Agrarpolitik Marokkos (1956-1980)-Analyse aus entwicklungspolitischer Sicht
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1983
The major objectives of the study is first to describe and analyse agricultural policy in Morocco and second to evaluate this policiy from the perspective of development economics Die vorliegende Arbeit verfolgt zwei Hauptziele. Sie will versuchen, erstens die Grundlinien der in Marokko seit der...
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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
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Improving the Lot of the Farmer: Development Challenges in Timor-Leste during the Second Decade of Independence
Lundahl, Mats; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
Timor-Leste’s first ten years of independence have been turbulent and a large share of the population remains poor. Broad-based improvements in living standards will require improvements in agricultural production since most Timorese are subsistence farmers and since there is no modern sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734802
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Improving the Lot of the Farmer: Development Challenges in Timor-Leste during the Second Decade of Independence
Lundahl, Mats; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Timor-Leste’s first ten years of independence have been turbulent and a large share of the population remains poor. Broad-based improvements in living standards will require improvements in agricultural production since most Timorese are subsistence farmers and since there is no modern sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010581011
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Natural resources conservation management and strategies in agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
natural resources in agriculture. First, it incorporates an interdisciplinary approach (combining Economics, Organization, Law … management and strategies in agriculture including: specification of specific “managerial needs” and spectrum of feasible … agriculture during post-communist transformation and EU integration (institutional, market, private, and public), and evaluates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257919
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Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analysis of mechanisms of governance of agro-ecosystem services. Firstly, we...
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