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This paper deals with agricultural dynamics in late-Imperial Russia. Based upon a comprehensive micro-level data set on annual yields between 1883 and 1913, we provide insight into regional differences of agricultural growth and the development prospects of Russian agriculture before WWI. Making...
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Spanish land reform, involving the break-up of the large southern estates, was a central issue during the first decades of the twentieth century. This paper uses new provincial data on landless workers, land prices and agrarian wages to consider if government intervention was needed because of...
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There is a vast literature on the effects of land inequality and agrarian reforms, but little on the origins of this inequality. We exploit a new and unique parish-level database of land inequality in Denmark, from 1682 to 1895, during which period there was comprehensive land reform and...
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Enclosures enforced private property rights at the onset of industrialization, yet numerous estimations of the enclosures' effects on production and productivity rely on non- experimental designs. We estimate the causal effects of enclosure reforms applying state- of-the-art...
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Economic historians have traditionally argued that urban growth in England was driven primarily by prior improvements in agricultural supply in the two centuries before the industrial revolution. Recent revisionist scholarship by writers such as Jan Luiten van Zanden and Robert Allen has...
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of production in Kazakhstan's traditionally nomadic livestock sector. Experts see considerable potential for output … livestock and future greenhouse gas emissions. We focus on the beef sector, using original survey data and interviews from south …-eastern Kazakhstan to compare rural households and farms by production strategy, generated using cluster analysis from data on livestock …
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This paper presents an overview of the livestock sector in Central Asia using national statistics and field survey data …. Growing consumer demand and underused pasture reserves suggest significant potential for growth. But production is fragmented …) enterprises. Few producers can supply quality livestock products at high volumes, leading some meat and milk processors to favour …
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livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon. We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana … typhoon. While they decrease the area planted for staple crops, i.e., rice and cassava, they tend to purchase more livestock … livestock raising, which emphasizes the contraction of crop farming in the aftermath of this type of event. …
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livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in …. While they decrease the crops-planted area, they tend to purchase more livestock in the short term and in the medium term …. Our paper not only indicates the adjustment to the crop-livestock system as an adaptation strategy to a severe typhoon …
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