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details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … and health impacts have rarely been analyzed. In this article, we argue that future impact studies should include …
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impact on agriculture and food security. Such impact estimates use two methods: Ricardian models and Integrated Assessment … changes, income growth and others). Unexpectedly enough, the resulting prospects for agriculture and food are not catastrophic …
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existing agriculture land is used for jatropha cultivation. The distributional results are slightly different. We find that …
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) are exempt. U.S. agriculture also is characterized by a large percentage of unauthorized workers who may or may not earn …
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), are exempt. Furthermore, U.S. agriculture is characterized by a large percentage of illegal migrants, and workers who are … illegal may or may not receive wages above minimum levels. This paper presents a case study, drawing from agriculture, that …
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This analysis explores the relationship between agricultural R&D investments and rural poverty reduction, and the prevalence of undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It uses a panel data set of internationally comparable poverty dis-aggregated by urban and rural areas, country level...
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This article provides an introduction to the special feature on agriculture-related issues in the emerging economies of … of agriculture in their development. It considers economic and social development in BRICs, their integration in world …
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Budget deficit, exchange rate fluctuation and high fuel world price provides a pressure on budget capacity to stimulate the Indonesian economy. The government has designed several fiscal policies, including reducing the fuel subsidy. The study objective is to analyse the impact of reducing fuel...
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livelihood and food from agriculture. The Sub-Saharan African region is home to more than quarter of a billion people living in …
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The objective of this paper is to examine how agricultural and nonagricultural labor productivities have grown over time and whether the growth pattern affected poverty in low- and middle-income economies in Asia. We first examine whether labor productivities in the agricultural and...
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