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The aim of this paper is to provide an Asian perspective on land investments with particular reference to the European position in terms of land acquisition. At first, the paper recalls the relevance that land holds as a distinct factor of production and consumption. Then, it investigates the...
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Energy security is a burning issue in a world where 1.4 billion people still have no access to electricity. This …
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over 10 percent growth rate, the Ethiopian economy has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the last … one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the dominant economic sector in the country accounting for a sizeable …
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The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in …
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developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …
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argument supposes that agriculture is environmentally benign or even ameliorative. A more fearsome fallacy may not exist …. Agriculture is one of the most resource-depleting economic activities and deserves to be treated accordingly. The microecological … variation on agroecological reasoning favors improving agriculture's environmental performance by reducing farm sizes and …
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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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Agriculture plays an important part in Kazakhstanś self-image, and continues to be a significant economic sector …, employing about a third of the workforce. In the two decades since independence, agriculture has experienced dramatic swings in …Die Landwirtschaft spielt eine bedeutende Rolle in Kasachstans Selbstverständnis und stellt mit einem Drittel der …
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When considering that increasing CO2 emissions are one of the most important reasons for global warming, the prospect for energy transition emerges as a significant way to combat this issue. Although there is a high correlation between CO2 emissions and fossil fuel consumption, nonrenewable...
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