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Is organic farming worth its investment? : the adoption and impact of certified pineapple farming in Ghana
Kleemann, Linda; Abdulai, Awudu; Buss, Mareike - 2013
Global food markets demand the adoption of food standards by small-scale farmers in developing countries when they enter international markets. While a conventional certification with GlobalGAP can be a market entry condition for conventional food, especially for horticultural products, organic...
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Rice contract farming in Lao PDR : moving from subsistence to commercial agriculture
Leung, PingSun (contributor);  … - 2008
Poverty is prevalent among small farms in transition economies such as the Lao PDR, where market failures prevail and … development tool to increase small farm incomes and reduce rural poverty. Using propensity score matching methodology and an … tool to improve the profitability and raise the incomes of small farmers, thereby reducing poverty in rural areas with …
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Convergence in agriculture of some Asian countries
Barrios, Erniel B. (contributor) - 2007
An agricultural growth model is proposed to verify the agricultural convergence hypothesis among some Asian countries following the method of Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1992) and Sala-i-Martin (1996). Conditional convergence of agriculture is facilitated by foreign aid intended for agriculture and...
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Implementing Sustainable Development Goals within the COVID-19 pandemic future challenges for the 2030 Agenda
Żbikowska, Anna Rydz - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 4, pp. 135-160
Goal 1 (No poverty), Goal 2 (Zero hunger) and Goal 3 (Good health and well‑being). Another purpose, recognized as the added …
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World Poverty and Food Insecurity
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2015
The article draws upon the insights of Yale philosopher Thomas Pogge to suggest a way that we might think about the structural inequities in the global economic order that produce food insecurity. The article argues that chronic undernourishment is not a function of food scarcity, bad weather,...
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Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality : Evidence from the Global Climate
Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2019
This paper shows that greater global spatial correlation of productivities can increase cross-country welfare dispersion by increasing the correlation between a country's productivity and its gains from trade. We causally validate this general-equilibrium prediction using a global climatic...
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Public Administration in the Age of Globalization and Emerging Technologies : From Theories to Practice
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2020
inherently international, and their pervasiveness can be seen as a symptom of border-less globalization, excessive liberalism …
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Integrative Governance : Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises (Foreword)
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2018
positive impact on society, globalization and the rapid pace of technological development, including robotics and artificial … of economic recession and/or in areas of growing economic and human poverty. A reaction to these developments might be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112915
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Linking Local Experiments to Global Standards : How Project Networks Promote Global Institution-Building
Manning, Stephan; von Hagen, Oliver - 2011
Global regulations, such as social and environmental standards, often result from project-based multi-stakeholder initiatives. Many initiatives fail because key stakeholders cannot be mobilized, or partners are incapable of establishing common ground. We show that local development projects...
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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Pro...
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
. Specifically, global governance and law with borderless globalization are to blame for the inability to find appropriate solutions … an increasing part of the population who are unable to benefit from such globalization. The related fear of the people … problems are certainly influenced by the negative visions on globalization and liberalism, which neglect to take into account …
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