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In recent years, Indonesia has seen an opposite trend between rice supply and demand. It is predicted that rice consumption is likely to increase along with the growing population, yet rice production has declined. On top of that, the domestic rice distribution system's inefficiencies are...
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Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija to Metro Manila. It finds that the paddy and rice supply chain is multilayered with many competing … weather risks and continuing tight local paddy supplies that spawn greater competition and increase management costs. The …
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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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which was isolated from soil in 1911, has been available to farmers as an organic pesticide since 1930.The engineered Bt … gains and a significant 39 per cent of reduction of insecticide usage. The range of pesticide reduction varied from 33 per … 352 million kg less pesticide used by the Bt growers. As a result of less insecticide uses, the farmer's health was not …
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. To limit these risks, market approval of a pesticide is typically conditional on an extensive risk assessment … presenting the basics of the VoI framework, this paper analyzes the actual regulatory practice in the EU's pesticide approval …
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This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role … governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations. Beyond being applied to sparsely populated farmland, pesticides … resorted to large-scale aerial pesticide spraying operations in urban areas. This book focuses on New Zealand's 2002 …
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paper we assess the pros and cons of rice price controls in Vietnam given these instincts. We argue that these price …
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government of Vietnam has set up all necessary institutions for CDM, wants to promote CDM projects and thus is interested to … reduce transaction costs. We calculate emission factors of the Vietnam electricity grid according to the rules defined by the … improvement in Vietnam. …
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The UN Millennium Development Goals have recognized poverty reduction as the main goal of global development policy. A comprehensive framework to evaluate the effectiveness of single policy measures and policy packages with respect to poverty reduction is still lacking, though. Policy evaluation...
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in Vietnam, that labour is severely flawed as a measuring rod for individual utility so that CVM based on labour …
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