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The Role of Infrastructure in Land-use Dynamics and Rice Production in Viet Nam
Edmonds, Christopher M. - 2002
agricultural production and changes in land use in the Mekong Delta Region of Viet Nam during the mid-1990s. The study relies on … econometric analysis of household-level longitudinal farm survey data covering about 150 farms from eight villages in the Mekong … use and level of production observed in the Mekong Delta during the 1990s. A simulation model is developed to highlight …
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The Impact of Infrastructure on Agricultural Productivity
Llanto, Gilberto M. - 2012
Recent literature indicates the significant role played by rural infrastructure in improving agricultural productivity in developing economies. While the availability and quality of rural infrastructure are never substitutes to efficient macroeconomic and agriculture-specific policies and the...
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Dynamics of development in rural communities
Barrios, Erniel B. - 2007
This paper explores the complex process of rural development at the community level in the Philippines. From the complementation among the essential elements of rural development (social infrastructure, physical infrastructure, and financial services), linkages are traced towards the attainment...
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Spatial effect in the efficient access of rural development
Barrios, Erniel B. - 2007
The search for an effective policy direction to contribute to the alleviation of rural poverty requires understanding of various socio-economic dynamics affecting the household. The central issue in the economic dimension is inefficiency in production, which may contribute to the widening income...
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The Evolution of Rice Production Practices
Bautista, Eulito U.; Javier, Evelyn F. - 2005
This paper presents a summary of the evolution of major practices in rice production over the last 100 years in the country. These practices essentially evolved out of the changes in the varieties introduced and planted by Filipino farmers, which have to change the manner by which production and...
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Rice Varietal Improvement and International Exchange of Rice Germplasm
Evenson, Robert E. - 1997
Rice is the most important food grain in developing countries. Rapid population growth in developing countries during the 1950s and 1960s presented a massive challenge to rice producers. Rice production would have to be expanded at historically unprecedented rates to maintain per capita rice...
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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologia Ruralis 28 (1988) 2/3, pp. 161-175
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
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Analysis of the land use sector in INDCs of relevant Non-Annex I parties
Hargita, Yvonne; Rüter, Sebastian - 2016
The international community has committed itself to adopt a global climate agreement in Paris in 2015, which shall enter into force in 2020 and shall be legally-binding for all. In advance of the negotiations, parties shall submit the so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions...
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Harapan: A "No Man's Land" Turned into a Contested Agro-Industrial Zone
Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta; Steinebach, Stefanie - 2014
The Harapan region is governed by a web of regulations. The corresponding allocation of land is informed by the demands of the international market and Indonesia's policy to supply it with the products needed. Thus, human interactions with the rainforest transformation systems are largely...
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Spatial developments of Hungarian agriculture in the transition: the case of crop production
Fertő, Imre - 2007
The paper investigates spatial changes in cultivation and land use of wheat, maize and oilseed in Hungarian agriculture using different methods to measure these changes. The results suggest that spatial structure of crop productions has remained fairly stable during analysed period. The spatial...
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