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Short-term global crop acreage response to international food prices and implications of volatility
Haile, Mekbib G.; Kalkuhl, Matthias; von Braun, Joachim - 2013
Understanding how producers make decisions to allot acreage among crops and how decisions about land use are affected by changes in prices and their volatility is fundamental for predicting the supply of staple crops and, hence, assessing the global food supply situation. The innovations of the...
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Specialization in food production, global food security and sustainability
Campi, Mercedes; Duenas, Marco; Fagiolo, Giorgio - 2020
Understanding specialization patterns of countries in food production can provide relevant insights for the evaluation and design of policies seeking to achieve food security and sustainability, which are key to reach several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this paper, we use production...
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Good farm practices and improved processing technology of enset for sustainable hunger solution in Ethiopia
Kudama, Gezahagn; Tolera, Tadesse; Gebeyehu, Lemane - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
Given the multi-benefits, enset cultivation has been continuously underutilized in Ethiopia. We assess best practices, processing technologies, environmental maintenance, multi-benefits of enset and its potency in hunger reduction in Ethiopia by reviewing evidence on good farm practices,...
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Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
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Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
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Regionale Produkte in der Gemeinschaftsverpflegung: aktuelle Situation, Hemmnisse und Förderndes bei der Verwendung
Arens-Azevedo, Ulrike - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 81 (2012) 4, pp. 147-162
Regionale Produkte werden in der Gemeinschaftsverpflegung (GV) bisher eher zufällig in das Speisenangebot integriert. Ihre Verwendung bietet eine Reihe von Vorteilen, die Erhöhung des Anteils ist politisch gewollt. Ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung bei GV-Betrieben der...
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Technology -- Climate Interactions in the Green Revolution in India
Evenson, Robert E.; McKinsey, James W. - 1999
This paper present a model of the Green Revolution in India, in which the development and diffusion of HYVs, the expansion of irrigation and the expansion of multiple-cropping are treated as endogenous responses to more basic investments in agricultural technology and infrastructure, as well as...
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Ghana's economic and agricultural transformation: Past performance and future prospects
Diao, Xinshen (contributor); Hazell, Peter B. R. (contributor) - 2019
Many African countries have experienced unprecedented rates of economic growth in recent years, yet their economic transformations display features that could constrain their future growth prospects. Patterns of urbanization without industrialization, rapid growth of low productivity jobs in the...
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The causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction in developing country: Using a non-stationary dynamic panel data
Gaaliche, Makram; Zayati, Montassar - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2014)
The aim of this article is to investigate the causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction for 14 …-stationary dynamic panel data. Our estimation results reveal that causality nexus of poverty and remittances is bi-directional. We also … find that the causal impact of poverty reduction on remittance is stronger than the reverse impact. Indeed, despite of its …
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Is poverty the mother of crime? Empirical evidence of the impact of socioeconomic factors on crime in India
Bharadwaj, Ashish - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2014)
that people who are vulnerable to fall under the poverty line indulge in criminal activities as a consumption smoothing … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and … statistically significant impact of poverty, inequitable income growth and low quality of the legal system on incidence of total …
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